Non-existant photo links?

Hi all
I have an N96 (firmware version 12.043) and I have a weird problem with it. When I go into the photo gallery, I have loads of boken links to photos that don't actually exist on the phone (they were on the memory card previously, but I have since deleted them) that I want to delete.When I try to delete them I get the error "General: System Error".
This problem started when I got back from a holiday in the US (I'm in the UK) last week.

This is very late, but I had the same issue so I'll respond here. The issue is that the phone's index of photos is corrupted. It's found in /private/101ffc31 as glxmdstn, I think, or maybe it was another folder. It thinks the files are there, but they're not. (Usually, managing the phone's contents in PC Suite or Media Transfer mode does this. I've had all sorts of issues with phantom files this way.) So if you delete that, by connecting the phone in mass storage mode and showing hidden folders in Windows, it'll rebuild the index based on the actual contents and it'll be fine.
You run into a problem if this happens with any files that were stored on C:/. The corresponding Private folder is also in C:/ and unlike the one in the memory card there's no way to access it. You have to back up your phone, do a complete blanking and reset, and then reload the backup.
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