Photos for screensaver not syncing

I'm having a rather odd and disturbing problem with ATV2. We use an album of our best photos as the screensaver. We like to add in new shots to the library. The total count now is just over 500. In adding some photos recently I discovered the only to get ATV to display the new photos is after adding them to the iPhoto album, quit iPhoto, quit iTunes on the computer used as the sync source, pont the ATV screensaver at a completely different source like the built in flower photos, then start iTunes on the sync source computer, point the ATV screensaver to the album we use, and wait for ATV to update.
That all usually works. But today after updating we got several photos in the screensaver that aren't in the album, or even in the iPhoto library at all! They exist on a different computer that's not involved at all. This parents a piroblem: there are photos in our various libraries that we definitely don't want on our ATV screensaver. So how did this happen and how do we prevent it from happening again?
BTW, with the screensaver showing those rogue photos, I looked at the album using ATV to display the photos directly (not the screensaver), those rogues were definitely NOT in the album!
Thanks, all.

Today I left the Photos app open for a while and noticed that it was putting significant load on my CPU when left untouched so I assumed that it was doing some sort of cataloguing. I left it for a while then did another iTunes sync and found that most, but not all, of the missing photos are now transferring successfully.
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