Photos being synced in a random order (iTunes 10.6.3)

Hi everyone,
After I upgraded to iTunes 10.6.3 on my Windows Vista PC, I tried syncing some new photos to my iPad 2, but whilst it was syncing them, all of my other albums on the device now display themselves in a random order. I specifically renamed certain photos in my albums on my PC so that they're the thumbnail image for each album in the "Albums" tab for Photos on iPad. What's going on?
Apparently, iTunes 10.6.3 was supposed to fix this bug which was in its update description, but I never noticed this bug when I was using iTunes 10.6.2. So rather than fix this problem, it has actually caused it! This isn't happening to all of my albums, but it is affecting around 70% of them.
I've restored my iPad 2, reinstalled iTunes to the latest version, renamed some of the photos and still the issue persists.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Regards,
Martin.
(My iPad 2 is running iOS 5.1.1 if anyone would like to know).

From my experience, the photos were never sorted in Alphabatical order since IOS4.
Refer here from article iOS: Understanding photo sorting http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221
If using iOS 4
iOS 4 sorts photos by the Date Taken tag of the photos. Specifically, your device uses the pictures' EXIF tags to determine the Date Taken information. Your device will look for the following EXIF tags within your pictures:
Capture Date
Date Time Digitized
Date Time Original
Last Modified
To change the sort order, you must change the Date Taken of photos on your computer. Third-party photo-management software may be able to do this. Refer to the documentation of your photo-management software for more information. In some cases, photos may not have a date in any of the above four EXIF tags, or photos may not support EXIF data (such as JPEG 2000, TIFF, PNG or GIF files). In this case, your device sorts these photos by the date the files themselves were created (as listed in the Date Created field in OS X Finder or Windows Explorer).
If using iOS 3.1.3 or earlier, photos are sorted on the device alphanumerically by the photos' file names.

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