Problem regaining memory space after deleting photos

While on vacation, I copied 9 mb photos, in iPhoto albums, from a family member's Mac to my iPad 2 . Once back home, I deleted the albums and photos using my own computer.
Even though the photos are now gone, my iPad still shows that I have 9 mb of photos. So, even though the photos are not showing up on my iPad, the disk space is still reserved for the deleted photos. How do I get it to give me the disk space back? I no longer have access to the other Mac (that uploaded the photos).
It was difficult to delete those photos as there were several thousand in a variety of folders. I ended up syncing to my own iPhoto which had very few photos. That did remove the albums & photos, but did not give back the 9 mb of memory they resided in.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Not related ... but may be related ... Here's my problems:
Okay ... so, because I had less than a 1 Gig left (as reported by iTunes) on my 64Gig iPad, and the majority of the space was being used by "Photos" ... I decided to not keep my PC photos directory in sync with my iPad (Windows 7). So, in iTunes, I unchecked the option to sync computer photos to the iPad. I got the standard popup warning message that my iPad would not contain those albums after the next sync. I clicked OK and proceeded to sync expecting to have lots of space freed up.
But weird things happened after syncing.
(1) I still have all my photos on my iPad .... nothing disappeared at all. (And performed multiple syncs to try to force the change ... still nothing has been removed from my iPad.)
(2) Somehow, I gained 20 Gigs of free space, as reported by both iTunes and my iPad as well.
Anyone know what's going on here?
I do have iMovie and another movie making app, Avid. Both of these contain projects that refer to photos in albums that were supposed to be removed after the sync ... but I can't imagine that would keep them there. Anyone have any ideas?
I also installed the iPad app, iPhoto. I noticed that it build a directory listing and continuously want to update that listing from time to time.
Would any of these things cause the iTunes photo sync changes to be ignored? And, how did I get free space to report back with an additional 19Gig or so, when there's no change at all.
Unsure what's going on ...

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