IPhone4 camera roll inaccessible

Any one else noticed this?
I have re-started, re-powered, re-sync'd, re-booted to no avail - just a temporary fix - the issue returns to haunt me.
What happens is the Camera Roll (within Photos > Albums) is there however it is too high and under the grey Albums label at the top of the display. Dragging it down has no effect since you must have it below the "Album" label to select it.
So far the only method I have discovered to view the Camera Roll is via the Camera App and use the Camera Roll button in the lower left corner - or - restart, reboot, repower....
Now that this has been happening, I of course cannot go a single day without checking it and trying to solve it. I have run out of ideas.

I will set some time aside to restore and flush the iPhoto.prefs as well. I have a odd idea this might be related to the iPhoto 9.1.3 thing as well.
The 9.1.3 thing was related to the events that would split into random multiple appearances that could not be sorted nor sync'd. I have an event called "2011" with about 1000 images, it would become 20 events named "2011" with very few images in each event of the same name. You could not sort them to group them together to check them all (keeping all on the iPad, iPhone...) nor would they sync. 2011 was checked at one time but you could not re-select all prior to the update.
They still do not sort very well after the 9.1.3 update but it is better with minor edits to any iPhoto event and it will sort until next restart. 'nuf about that.
Reflecting on all of this I will restore the phone but first clear the iPod photo cache, prefs etc related to iPhoto to get that up to snuff before it gets worse.
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