Yea, I don't mind that since you can select multiple images at once by swiping across the images (though without a delete all button deleting a few thousand images is difficult; thankfully the memory of my iPad is a limiting factor). I deleted all the images manually and then this happened. I hadn't realized that even though the images were deleted, either they're taking up space or making iTunes think that they're taking up space.

I tried doing what you said and unfortunately, it didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion though.

At one point I think one video was causing an individual event to be like that, and now it's just... duplicated itself. Regardless, a video wouldn't take up 12GB of space. This is a really, really weird issue.

I'm reinstalling iTunes (and my iPad) and resyncing to see if that'll help with anything. Really hope something will crop up and fix my problem.

On a whim last night I restored from a backup, and guess what? Well, I just got back with a fresh batch of shots from the day's shoot, backed up on a netbook (grr, sucky battery life make me mad), and in Lightroom saw that my connected iPad had no photos! None; no screenshots (aww, bye bye to my cool ingame shots), no photos, no nothing - but could it be? Had I successfully wiped my iPad's photos without resorting to a full restore? I quickly jump into the about section of my iPad and see that I have 19GB available! I hurriedly reconnect my iPad and lo and behold, not a single bit of photo data! At last, I no longer have to deal with the terrible battery life of a netbook, nor have to rely on my tiny camera screen to review shots. Hallelujah!

A note to any other people who face this problem, try to restore from a backup. If it doesn't work, try all that I've done above. If it still doesn't work, well... you're on your own. It's up to you to do decide if a full restore is worth it. But if you're like me, your problems will have been solved!

I am a very happy camper!

Yay!