Photos vanish, missing, won't transfer in Book Project

My book project is missing photos.
The book icon indicates that there are 158 photos in the book. I have only used 90. There are only 6 left in my creation bar.
Here's the deal:
I started the album. Then duplicated it.
I edited the duplicate and added and removed photos from the duplicate.
When I was sure that I was not going to need the original, I deleted it.
I then went back to add photos to the duplicate that were previously removed from the book.
This is when the book would not let me copy to it.
Additionally, the number of photos in the book never decreased.
I did notice that the number in the original book did decrease when photos were removed from the duplicate.
I scoured the discussion groups, but I can't find an answer. So if anyone has any iNsight I'd really appreciate it!!
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   2.0

This probably won't help the OP, as the article is about transferring data, not sorting. Many people here in the forums are struggling to sort their photos - try the search.
I think photos are sorted by the creating date in the photo's meta data (not the file's timestamp). At least I had some success manipulating that the last time I ran into this problem. But I can't remember exactly what I did and I do remember that there were two timestamps in the meta data ...
Here's hoping future versions of the Photos app will address this. Can't hurt to let Apple know about it: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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