Recent iTunes syncing Photos issue

Hi all,
Recently I've been having issues syncing iPhoto albums to my iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. It results in an error such as :-
"The <device> cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to."
This usually is during the import phase of the process despite me deleting all the photos in my device, therefore nothing to import.
The AppleTV (Gen 1) is somewhat more descriptive by explicitly stating "iTunes cannot sync to the Apple TV <ATV name> because of a problem on your computer. The disk could not be read from or written to.".
I'm inclined to think this only started happening with the latest version of the iPhoto 9.3 with Aperture 3.3.1 integration. Meanwhile my iTunes is 10.6.3.
Is this a known bug? Has anyone else seen this issue?

That can sometimes indicate a photo cache issue. If you remove the current ipod photo cache, does that get you past the error?
For instructions on where to find it, see the following document:
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