IPad sync-unwanted photos from iMac

HELP!!!  I don't know if I reset something, or why this is happening, but it is baffling.  When I plug my iPad into my iMac, photos from the computer iPhoto start getting loaded into the iPad.  I don't want thousands of photos on my iPad.  What's more, these photos end up in an "album" and cannot be deleted from the iPad.  Any idea what I can do.  I'm thinking I must have reset some kind of sync option,and don't know how to reverse what I changed.  Any ideas how I can delete these photos from my iPad and prevent the computer from dumping my whole iPhoto library into the iPad?

this bit is the same as in the old you navigate to the ipads content page
and click the photos tab
there you control how you sync photos in terns of iphotos or a dir
and which albums and events

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