ITunes can't sync with iPhoto Library on NAS-Drive

As I have a lot of pictures and want to have them in a save place (RAID) i transfered the iPhoto Library to my NAS-Drive and told iPhoto to use the new location.
iPhoto works great with this setting - but when I try to sync my iPod Touch or iPhone with the Photo-Lib all I get is an empty Library. I don't want to sync with a disk-folder, but the iPhoto-Library to use the "Sync folder"-Option!
When i set the "Sync Pictures with..."-Feature at the Photos-Tab to "iPhoto" it shows an empty library ("no photos"). When I create a new (second) iPhoto-Lib at the default location (inside user folder) it works fine.
Why doesn't use iTunes the CURRENT LOCATION of the Photo-Library instead of using some STUPID DEFAULT PATH?! Who writes Software like this?! And the most important question: HOW CAN I PATCH THAT?!
An Alias of the iPhoto Library in the default-location doesn't work - so what's next?!
Any suggestions welcome!
Greetings from Germany
Thomas
PS: Spelling of locations, menues and so on are roughly translated from my german os version...

It is not of any help but have exactly the same issue. Called one of our local radio Tech Shows (The Tech Guy, with Leo Leporte) and for what it is worth his only answer was that it was a bug. He noted that apparently i-Tunes was not looking at i-Photo for the library location but rather, as you have noted, only looks in the default location.
Be interested if you get this solved or come up with another work around that does not require my library to be in the default directory.
As you noted i-Photo is happy it is just the sync with i-Tunes, it just doesn't work,
Chuck Queen

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