Syncing photos to iPad results in WEIRD behaviour

To be more specific, I am trying to sync my photos to my iPad using iTunes on Windows. I have my photos categorised in the My Pictures folder by date (e.g. December 2011, November 2009, etc). However, not only do not all the photos copy over, leaving blank thumbnails, but sometimes when I click on a blank image to enlarge it, it is actually there, but it's thumbnail is blank. That doesn't happen with all photos though, a lot do get copied over okay. But another problem is, so many of the photos are jumbled up into the wrong folders! So I've got pictures from the September 2011 folder appearing in the November 2010 album on my ipad!
I've tried restoring the ipad from a recent backup, but that doesn't help.
I've tried deleting the iPod Photo Cache and I've tried syncing to a blank folder to completely clear all pics off the ipad.
Short of wiping the entire thing and starting from scratch (which I really don't want to do as I'll lose a bunch of stuff) I don't know what to do.
Any advice?
Thanks!

Found a solution, in a post to another user's question in a different thread:
Download iPhoto Library Manager (http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/) and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
That rebuild did what iPhoto's built-in rebuild apparently couldn't. After it completed and iPhoto relaunched, I was able to resync to iOS devices and the errant photos were gone.
Whew!

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