Phantom mobileme galleries / iphoto 11

I am working with Iphoto '11 and mobileme. My mobileme galleries includes 20 albums which do not exist on Iphoto and can not be deleted from mobileme (because if logged into mobile me and you attempt to click on the gallery it then gives you error message "Unable to connect to mobileme," which is rubbish because remain connected whole time and can appropriately click through to non phantom albums). The phantom albums do represent albums previously synced with mobileme from earlier versions of iphoto. But I can not see them on iphoto so that I can delete them! Have rebuilt/repaired iphoto 11 repeatedly. Mobileme support says this is iphoto issue and directed to me to 1-800 etc. The galleries that do show up in photo are accurately syncing with mobileme galleries and work just fine. I also tried deleting manually from idisk but it said I did not have access due to permissions. It is almost as if it is syncing with different iphoto library? But I don't have another iphoto library... argh! Any thoughts? If a public user clicks on phantom album, he/she gets the list of pictures but not the actual pictures.

I probably don't have a solution to your problem but maybe something you can try. I've been having the same issue for about a year. It's something I've just dealt with until recently when I needed to show photos to a current client, while the phantom galleries for an older competing client still appeared on gallery page--had to workaround via flickr.
Anyway...I spent an excruciating hour having a live chat w/ someone at mobileme. She indicated that the problem was in my iDisk folder. She instructed me to go to iDisk>web>sites>gallery. She thought I'd see the phantom galleries there -- I didn't; only saw the current newer galleries. Anyway, if you see them, delete them, perhaps it will work for you. If I figure it out, I'll post here. Please do same. Good luck.

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Thanks Richard, very helpful. I wondered why I couldn't see my old mobileme galleries in Aperture.
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