Old voice memos reappeared on iPhone

I still have a 4S, just put iOS7 on it a week or so ago.  I use Voice Memos alot, they've been transferring over to iTunes on the desktop just fine until today. Yesterday, I had between 5-10 voice memos on both the iPhone and in iTunes.  Today, I synced, and have hundreds of voice memos on the phone, and 8 in iTunes.  The ones on the phone go back to 11/8/13, plus one extra one from 8/2/12.  The 8 on the phone are current messages from yesterday and today. The hundreds on the phone are messages that were long ago deleted, they do not appear in iTunes.  What do you supposed happened?  And how do I get them off of the iPhone all at once?  I can't delete them one at a time, that would take a week. 
TIA,
Audrey

iTunes should automatically sync voice memos to your iTunes library when you connect iPhone to your computer. This lets you listen to voice memos on your computer and provides a backup if you delete them from iPhone.
Voice memos are synced to the Voice Memos playlist. iTunes creates the playlist if it doesn’t exist. When you sync voice memos to iTunes, they remain in the Voice Memos application until you delete them. If you delete a voice memo on iPhone, it isn’t deleted from the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. However, if you delete a voice memo from iTunes, it is deleted from iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.
Once in iTunes, you can then export/copy them to whatever software you're using.

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