Photo Syncing Bug

I just got my touch today - like it very much. However, there seems to be a bug in photo synching.
If I select "Sync photos from:" and choose the Pictures folder, then click on the 'selected folder' button - nothing gets synched. I get a "synching" activity bar with banded pattern - but this continues indefinitely, until I cancel the sync.
If I select a folder and choose all photos (for one folder) it works. If I nest a folder within the Pictures folder, and select the container folder - it works.
So, it seems that the Pictures folder doesn't work for nested synching. Or perhaps if you have a lot of pictures, it takes forever to catalog all of them within each folder. Either way I don't like.
And, no I'm not going to synch with my iTunes library, as I don't put all my content into iTunes.

George,
I think I figured it out? I synced one folder and the next day wanted to use another folder. It replaced the photos that were already on the Touch.
Here is what worked for me. I created a folder and called it iTouch Photos(don't jump my case). I then drug the different folders of various vacations that I had weeded out and dropped them into the iTouch Photo folder.
Now in the sync window below the buttons, the two folders with the picts are listed. They are in the Touch the same way.
Photo Library is at the top of the menu, and the two other folders are below it.

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