Photo File Names Reset After Every Synch with iPhoto

I have iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.0.1
This only started happening in the last couple weeks: every time I synch-and-delete my photos with iPhoto (6.0.6), it resets the "file name" counter on the photos I take on the phone. I've been using this version of iPhoto and synch-and-delete as my photo saving method since I got the phone and before it would always remember the last photo number taken. Now I am ending up with dozens of photos in my library called "IMG_0001" etc, which is very frustrating when I want to move photos anywhere as a batch.
Is this a new "feature" for iOS4? I can't find any settings that could be causing it on the phone.

I noticed the same problem today when I tried to export my iphone pictures from iphoto into a folder with other iphone pictures from last week.
I have an iphone 4 running 4.0.2

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