IPhoto wants to import photos that have already been imported

A couple of days ago I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5 - today was the first time since the upgrade that I've tried to import photos. I have about dozen or so new photos and videos on my iPhone to import, however iPhoto is showing 246 photos to be imported. The other 200+ photos were already imported from the iPhone (and have been in the library for a few years now) so why is iPhoto asking to import them again?? Shouldn't it recognize that it has already imported them?
I should note that I have over 2,000 photos in my iPhoto library; so not sure why it chose these particular 200+ photos to import again.
If I have no choice but to import those photos again, is there a way that I can check and get rid of duplicates in iPhoto? Short of manually searching and deleting them one-by-one?
Thanks!

I've just found this discussion, I too have the same problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3429399
I have already submitted feedback to apple... Hope for the best..
Did anyone tried to manually move the newly imported video in the folder of the event where it belongs?
I am afraid of messing things up.. If it is a problem of "flagging" the file at the filesystem level maybe this could help.. but if the flagging happens at the iPhoto Library level... no hope:(

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Divine88 wrote:
I have Recently been trying to update several apps of mine, and when i click update all, or one at a time, it takes me straight to my billing information.
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Then after that it says i need to pay to update my apps that have already been purchased or apps that i have gotten for free
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