IPhoto sync produces chaos

I have just updated iPhoto tov9.4 and my iPhone 3GS to iOS 6. When I sync my photos using iTunes, it finds a lot of scans I deleted a year ago and has also scrambled the album contents. To start with it doubled the number of photos on the phone, so I synced to an empty folder to clear the phone and rebuilt the iPhoto database. But I still get these old items on the phone.
I have restored the phone to it's as new state and then loaded apps and data from their original sources, avoiding using "Restore from Backup", since this may also contain the corrupted data. After many hours of reconstituting the phone, I now am back to square one, with the corruption still present.
It looks like the iPhoto 9.4 library upgrade is responsible.

To answer my own question:
I eventually rebuilt the iPhoto library using the iPhoto Library Manager, File>Rebuild option. It takes a long time but removes a lot of old stuff that must have accumulated over many years. My iPhone photos with version 9.4 are now syncing normally.
I got this tip from Terrance Devlin, so many thanks to him:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19606742#19606742
iPhoto Library Manager can be downloaded from:
http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/

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