iphone photo count doesn't match settings app

At this point I'd suggest you restore your phone (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414). Try first by restoring to your backup at the end of the process. If you want things to go faster, backup your phone to iTunes (rather than iCloud, which takes much longer to restore from). You can perform a manual backup in iTunes even if you are backing up to iCloud by connecting your phone to your computer and right-clicking on the name of your phone on the left sidebar of iTunes and choosing Backup. Also, prior to restoring be sure to back up your contacts (such as by syncing them to iCloud in Settings>iCloud>Contacts>On, Outlook or another cloud service). Don't rely solely on your iPhone backup to restore your contacts.

If restoring using your backup does not resolve things, you'll have to save as much of your data as possible and restore your phone as new (without your backup).

You could try importing all of your camera roll photos to your computer and deleting them after importing as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083. Then confirm in Settings>General>About that the photo count is zero. If it is and you still want these photos on your phone you can sync them back with iTunes.

You're welcome. Sorry you had to go through all that but glad it's working again.