My photos will not stay in the order I uploaded them to my my iPod and they changed their names

Question

I'm really frustrated. I'm trying to put photos in albums on my iPod and iPad.  I arranged them on my computer into the order I wanted and uploaded the files I wanted via iTunes as per directions. They are not in the order that they were in the file I uploaded. I spent time renaming and arranging, but to no avail. I look at things using I explorer and discovered that even the names of the files were different than I had named them. I have asked for Apple Support over the phone and in the Apple store. On the phone she was looking up stuff in the manual (I had to tell her what page to go to in the manual, she said that's what they all do to give help) and at the store it was the same story. I am so frustrated at the lack of answers and support that I could toss everything out a window!
Is there anyone out there that actually knows anything about their product?

Answer 1

Good morning
A couple of things that I find.
1.  iPhoto "Events" can never be reordered, only iPhoto Albums. Photo events always ordered by date.  Are you sure you are uploading Albums and not Events?  It sounds like you are doing this correctly but the behaviour in your iPAD is suggesting otherwise. 
2.  iPhoto events and albums can only be synced from iTunes to an IOS device, they do not sync backwards. Events and albums can migrate from your IOS device to your computer (without a 3rd party app), only camera roll and photosteam . if activated will bring photos from your ios device to your computer.
3.  Albums created on an IOS device cannot be deleted by Itunes, they can only be deleted on the device
     -  Albums created on the IOS device are "mirroring" a photo you have on the IOS device.  If you delete that photo it will disappear from the album.  So if you took it from an iTunes album or camera roll it will disappear.
When you are syncing from Itunes does your Photo tab look like this?