IPhoto albums and faces

Hi,
So about a month ago I created a smart album in iPhoto and set it up to sync with my iPhone. It worked perfectly. However, a couple of days ago, I started updating the "Faces" of my photos and from that moment on my iPhone not only synced the desired album, but also a new album named "Faces" in which appear the exact same photos from the desired album. Moreover, the "Faces" album is categorized or separated in the names of the people that appear in the original album.
Just to make sure I made my point:
- At first I only had one album called "Album1" in which I had photos of John, Jack and Amy. Now, out of nowhere, I have "Album1" and "Faces" which itself is divided in 3 albums named "John", "Jack" and "Amy" and they all contain replicates of the photos in Album1 in which each person appears.
I haven't been able to find the setting that enables this or disables this. Does anyone know how can I avoid this from happening?
Thanks,

Yea, you're right about not being nested albums; its more like you said, a folder named "Faces" with 3 albums, each with the name of the people. I'll try to explain through screenshots... changed names to Ross, Joey and Chandler to make it easier to find photos.
So first here's Album1 in iPhoto... 9 photos, Smart Album created from keyword: Friends and all faces assigned.
Now here are iTunes settings. Only Album1 selected to sync. No "faces" are selected to be synced.
Now here's my iPhone... Smart Album is there, just like intended. But there is also a "Faces" folder, and that folder contains the 3 people that appear in the Smart Album even though I don't want iPhone to sync those faces since they are duplicates!
That's the issue... too weird for me. Don't even know if this is iPhoto, iTunes or iPhone... sounds more on iPhoto's side, but don't know...

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