Two Iphones appear in devices, nothing is connected

Help! If you can ... My iPhoto '09 has gone wonky. It seems to think I have two iPhones connected. They are the same name, and I have nothing connected! It even loads the dotted squares of pictures, and when I click import, it - obviously - will tell me it can 't find anything. When I go to connect my actual camera, it won't recognize it.
I've tried removing the preferences file, unmounting all my external hard drives, but it still seems to think I have two Iphone connected.
Any thoughts?

First delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder, launch iPhoto and try again.
Next, if necessary, launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the last three options.
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Launch iPhoto and see if there's any change.
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