Animated GIF broken on iPad, iPhone

[This is a cross-post with the iPhone forum: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17908717#17908717 ]
I develop a web site and I use animated GIFs. They used to work fine on both iPhone and iPad, but now they're broken. The animation plays but one of the frames flashes with the center of the image somewhat transparent so the background color shows through. This is under iOS 5.1. Is this a known bug or limitation and is there a fix?

Thanks! You'll get an email when the bug is ready to verify in a public build (either a developer seed if you have access, or a GM build), but I can't comment on when that might be. You may add additional comments to the bug at any time by logging back into <https://bugreport.apple.com/>.
Since this apparently doesn't occur on every animated GIF image, the only suggestion for a workaround that I have is to try a different program (on your Mac or PC) to generate the GIF, or use a different program to post-process the GIF to see if that fixes the issue.

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[This is a cross-post with the using iPhone forum https://discussions.apple.com/message/17908717#17908717 ]
I develop a web site and I use animated GIFs. They used to work fine on both iPhone and iPad, but now they're broken. The animation plays but one of the frames plays with the center of the image somewhat transparent so the background color shows through. This is under iOS 5.1. Is this a known bug or limitation and is there a fix?
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The email language is in English, and it is the only email source that seems to suffer from this issue. Its distributed weekly but I only noticed the problem a few months back - prior to that it was fine.
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Have attached a screenshot to see if it helps. You'll see that the mail begins out normally in English and then deteriorates after a few sentences, possibly initially starting with the first use of the € Euro symbol.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1229922 <-- this
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