I followed the article exactly, but it did not work...
In fact it is worse. All of my photos between 2006-11-12 and 2012-05-28 did not sync. Everything in that gap is missing, thousand of photos. I have an iphone 4 and am using iphoto 09 8.1.2 (424).
iMac (Flat Panel), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)