Photo Sync - Faces - Reduced Photo Count

I did a search & didn't find anything on this...
I have an iPhone 4, iMac 24", and use Aperture. Within iTunes I chose to sync one of my "faces" lists...containing all the identified faces of one person. It synced and added to my iPhone w/o any problem. I have since reduced the instances of that person being tagged, such that instead of 71 photos in that person's face 'album', there are now only 46. But when I sync again, my phone still has all 71 photos.
Similarly, if I uncheck that face 'album' in iTunes (expecting it to remove those photos), I still see all the photos on my iPhone.
When in the Photos tab in iTunes, it still has a "71" next to that particular face 'album'.
So it appears that iTunes is not recognizing the change & keeps syncing those files to the phone. It's interesting though, b/c if I add another face to that 'album', that was added to the phone. Is there some separate database that iTunes creates that will recognize additions, but not deletions?
A google search yielded that there's an iPod iPhoto Cache that's created as a "Package Content" of my Aperture library. But it seems silly to have to delete this folder and recreate/sync everything whenever I want to remove photos from an album.
Help?

I'm experiencing a similar problem. I am running Leopard 10.5.5 with iTunes 8.01 (12), and syncing with a iPod Classic 80 Gb.
When I sync my iPod with iTunes, in the Photos tab I have selected "Sync Photos from iPhoto." Next to the radio button for "All photos" it reads 1063 photos. My iPhoto 08, version 7.14 (371) library has 2433 items in it!
Why don't they show up to sync to my iPod in iTunes? I've tried deleting the iPod photo cache in the iPhoto folder, but when I sync again, I have the same problem.
What's going on, Apple?

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What the iPhone needs is a simple, tried and true image tagging system, whereby the photo albums are not physical albums, they're simply based off of tags. This means the same photo can appear in multiple albums without requiring multiple instances of it on the phone.
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