Syncing photos to Nano 3rd Gen

My wife and I have two nano's that have the same problem. We can find folders and photos and manually sync them but when the optimizing for iPod is complete it tells us that some photos cannot be displayed on the iPod. The one or so photos that are on the iPod are distorted and have large lines of solid colours on them. They do not sync properly. I have Windows Vista and an HP computer. I do not have adobe or anything, I just find the folder and sync that way. It looks like it is syncing and the bar at the top of iTunes shows that it is optimizing, but no picture comes out properly on the iPod. I appreciate any help

And then there were four...
This is rather frustrating. Not that I think it will do any good, but here's what I sent using iTunes' "Feedback" option since there is no way, that I have found, to directly ask the iTunes technicians a technical question:
There is no place to directly ask you (the iTunes technicians) for support about iTunes except in the forums. My question is already in the forums and already has three people with the same problem and no answer. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6240563&#6240563
Vista Ultimate x64, HP Pavilion TX1000 CTO, 2GB RAM, AMD Turion 64x2.
iTunes version 7.6.1.9
Not all photos sync to the ipod, it doesn't say why or what to do, they are *.jpg files. Some that do sync end up looking distorted with color bars and other odd artifacts, originals remain pristine. Sometimes when syncing photos, I get a blue screen of death.
I know you don't respond to these comments, but at least have someone post a fix on the forum there, or tell me to whom I can send comments for official help with specific and real issues instead of the very general user guides, "support documents" and "blind leading the blind" forums.

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