IPhone wipes out photos when syncing

I think this issue may be connected to the iTunes 8.2 update. Twice now, when I have synced my iPhone it claims that no photos were synced as there was not enough memory for all of them. This in spite of the fact that there was 40MB of space left WITH all the photos on it prior to syncing. Does anyone have an idea about what is causing this? Apple's lack of e-mail customer support is really infuriating.

Sit on the phone with customer support "all day"? You sound like a woman. I bet you use the words always and never often also.
Have you ever called AppleCare? If not, you do not know what you speak. Your original post was posted 2 hours ago. Had you called AppleCare at that time instead, you would have been off the phone long ago and likely would have the problem resolved. But since your time is so valuable, you would rather exchange email instead starting with you explaining the problem, followed by recieving an email maybe with some questions that need to be answered before troubleshooting steps are provided, or with a form letter response that includes troubleshooting steps for you to try. You try the troubleshooting steps provided, which may work but if not, back to exchanging email. Sounds like a great time saver, for someone who has no experience whatsoever with calling AppleCare.
The handful of times I have called AppleCare, I wasn't on hold for more than 5 minutes, and I was off the phone in less than 30 minutes with an answer or the problem resolved. Certainly not "all day", which my GF sometimes uses when she is whining about something.
Call, I mean email Dell Technical support and ask if they recommend using 99% of your hard drive's storage capacity, or if using over 90% is recommended. I'll bet you dollars to donuts they won't recommend it since data loss is very likely when doing so, and it affects performance.
The iPhone runs an optimized version of OS X, and has RAM, a limited amount of RAM. OS X makes use of RAM dynamically, but the optimized version of OS X with the iPhone doesn't seem to do this as well as the full OS X version on a Mac. Possible that the optimized version of OS X makes use of a RAM disk when the RAM has been depleted.

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