IOS 5 Bug: Badges on Messaging app

We have stumbled upon a bug in iOS 5 running on the iPhone 4, in regards to the badges showing up on the Messages App.
You can reproduce this bug yourself.
In Settings>Notifications>Messages, set it to:
Notification Center: On
Show: 5 Recent Items
Alert Style: Alerts
Badge App Icon: On
Show Preview: On
Repeat Alert: Never
View In Lock Screen: On
Now, go to your home screen and have somebody text message you a few times in a row. When each text message comes up as an alert dialog box, click on CLOSE.
So far, so good.
However, when you go to look at your Messages App icon, there are *NO* badges to let you know that you just received 2 or 3 text messages. Furthermore, none of those messages made it into your Notification Center either.
In iOS 4, if you clicked "Close" on a Message Alert, you would still be reminded of the fact that you have text messages waiting, because the badge icon would show you how many messages have come in since the last time you launched the Messages app.
This bug is causing us to forget about all sorts of incoming text messages because we don't have a badge reminder NOR a notification center reminder. The badge icon and the notification center reminders should really ONLY DISAPPEAR once we launch the Messages app.
Thanks,
Scott

i tried calling apple about this problem back on ios 5 launch day and i even wrote some guy on infoworld about it. no one even knows what i am talking about or even cares.
im betting on apple made it that way to make the cellular phone companies happy.
im not observing that issue on my ipad, heh
my original thread
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16374805#16374805

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This used to work just fine in iOS 4, and we need this fixed so we don't keep forgetting about unread text messages!

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