Problem with corrupted iPhone photo albums

I have a problem with my iPhone "Photos" app.
When I open it is see hundreds of "ghost" albums in the Albums tab.
I have tried to turn off syncing photos in iTunes and then turn it back on again, and so deleting all albums and photos and then re-applying- but no luck.  I also tried to sync with an empty folder on my Mac instead of the iPhoto library, but this still does not delete the albums.
Anyone know how to nuke the photos on an iPhone and start from scratch WITHOUT having to restore the iPhone to its factory state?

Here is what I see when I go to delete some of the rogue albums:
I could keep doing this but there are probably 300-400 of them!!!!!

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