IPhoto won't export from some folders.

I'm trying to get all my previous iPhone photos sorted into year groups so that I can import them as Albums into my shiny new phone.
In iPhoto I created five folders labelled by their year and pulled images into the respective folders.
I dock my iPhone, and in iTunes I select the folders I want to import from, however, iTunes tells me that some of those folders are empty.
I go back to iPhono and attempt to export from the suspect folders, and this cannot be done, either by File> Export, or by simply dragging nd dropping. The OK folders behave normally.
Why do I see images in folders in iPhoto, but I'm unable to export them?
Any clues welcome.

In iPhoto, Folders cannot contain Photos. Albums and Events contain photos. Folders can only contain Albums or nested folders.
So are you referring to Albums or Events?
Anyway these photos won't sunc because iPhoto can't find them. In the case of the message you're getting it sounds like you Referenced them when importing.
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A Managed Library, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing. The files are then stored in the Library package
A Referenced Library is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing because you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced. (You unchecked the option to copy files into the Library on import) The files are then stored where ever you put them and not in the Library package. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.

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