IPhone 4 iPhoto sync issue

Last week my camera roll synced with my iPhoto just fine. Had the iPhone 4 for only 1 and a half weeks. 1st iPhone ever but still have a second gen iPod Touch. This week none of my pictures taken from this weekend are syncing with iPhoto. Changes since last week, I took a few pictures with photo swap but I uninstalled that. I've also taken 1 screenshot but this issue started before that screenshot. I also have synced my iPod touch once or twice with the same iMac.
Everything in the camera roll but that screenshot was taken with the built in camera. I have a couple of videos in there. I've reset the phone a couple of times. I reset iSync. The other weird thing is that every time I open iPhoto it says my iPhone is connected and I can unmount it even when the iPhone is not connected. If I close iPhoto after unmounting the non-existent iPhone it is mounted again when I reopen iPhoto all without actually having my iPhone connected at any point.
Any suggestions? It's pretty unacceptable when I thought I could rely on my iPhone as a decent digital camera.

Try this: make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.

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