Multiple empty Last Import albums in iPad Photos

I use the camera connection kit to pull photos from an SD card into my iPad 2. This has worked perfectly for about half a year. Recently after importing, I noticed that instead of a single "Last Import" album in the Photos app on the iPad, there were several. One contained the photos just imported, the rest were empty.
They can't be selected for deletion straight out of the iPad through the edit option, seemingly since I didn't create them but the system did.
I pulled all the photos off the iPad. The empty albums remain.
Bringing in new photos from an SD card creates another album. That ones goes away when the pictures in it are deleted/imported, while the empty ones remain.
I deleted the "iPod Photo Cache" from the hard drive that the iPad syncs its photos to. And even stopped having iTunes sync any photos to the iPad.
I'm still left staring at 14 Last Import albums.
This seems to have occurred since upgrading to iOS 5.1. I am not using iCloud to sync photos.
Now I've got my iPad 3 and have restored it from the backup of my iPad 2 and now the empty albums are on it too.
I've tried everything I can think of. I've only seen one other discussion here and its hard to believe this has only happened to so few users.
Other suggestions? Does Apple have a fix or workaround?

Solution found in this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/message/17864996#17864996

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