In IOS5, Photo Albums are no longer sorted by Album name?

Ouch!   I have been using photos on my iPhone (now the 4s) for years, and always synched with my PC where I use Photoshop Elements.   I carefully organize my photos, put them in albums, and then sync to my iPhone.   My album names are titles like "Vacation in California"," John's 30th Birthday Party", etc. It's great because whether on my phone or on the PC, I can find my photo albums easilly.   They are, of course, listed alphabetically by the name I give the album.
But no longer.   Album names on my iPhone seem to be in random order. Perhaps they're in order by the date of one of the pictures in the album? Not really sure here, as my albums usually contain dozens of pictures.
At any rate, why has this happened? And more importantly, how do I get the albums to sort by name?    I noticed that you can now manually change the order of albums on the phone itself, but this is not much help, as it goes back to the former sequence when I re-sync.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

I posted this almost a month ago, I'm surpirsed noone else had had this issue...
I don't sync that often (yeah, I know, crusify me), but tonight I went to synchronise again and I got a different photo that wont come over....
In addition to the above:
- the photos are taken with the same camera, on the same date and time as other photos around it...
So "why is it now no longer compatible with iphone4?"????
If I unsync a photo, it just gives me a new photo it can't sync.
Can anyone tell me how to find ALL the photos it can't sync? This is a serious deficiency of iphoto/itunes/sync with iphone...

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