ITunes 7.0.2 "forgot" about iPhoto albums...

Upgraded to iTunes 7.0.2 recently and added some new photos to iPhoto (6.0.5). When I plugged in my iPod (Photo) iTunes started to upgrade the iPod and then came up with an unknown error (-50) when I was expecting it to sync the new photos. Didn't think much about it and restored the iPod. After that iTunes came up with the -50.
I then looked more closely and iTunes shows 0 photos when I choose to sync from iPhoto. iPhoto still shows more than 5000 photos as before. Choosing another folder for syncing photos works fine (This one contains about 4700 photos in subfolders...)
Any ideas?
Cheers!

Hmmmm...I logged into the guest account on my computer, added a few random photos and, voila, like you, mudhog, iTunes shows the photos are there. Hmmphhh! The interesting thing is the differences in folder contents.
Here are a couple of screenshots with the differing files/folders highlighted:
http://www.ohdanny.net/images/guestacctfolders.png
http://www.ohdanny.net/images/myacctfolders.png
Any ideas anyone? Also, are we all using the same version of iPhoto? I am on 5.0.4

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