iPod Photo Cache

It is the iPod Photo Cache and has 52 sub-folders each with between 6 and 8 files, suffixed .ithmb. Information shows them as iTunes.app documents and clickong on them brings up iTunes but nothing further. I assume that they are somehow related to the photo files on my iPhone, though there is a discrepance in the numbers in that I currently have 313 photos on myiPhone and there are, if my arithmetic is correct, 368 files.
Two questions. Does it matter where I keep this folder and do I need to keep this folder?