Black/white gradiant contact images after Facebook sync

Combining my iCloud contacts with Facebook data leaves some contact images blank (not that there is no image, rather the image is white or a black/white gradiant) I have tried removing the Facebook integration and resyncing my contacts several times and each time the image is the same. It affects about 50% of my contacts. I have tried fixes on an iPhone 4, iPad 3, and www.icloud.com all unsuccessfully. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happening? Any and all suggestions would be appreciated!

Further on.
I have now restored the phone as a new Iphone for the 5th time. I have synced nothing to the phone. I have deleted all pre exsisting profiles.
Still I am stuck on the loading page.
Has this got anything to do with the frimware?
Or OS5?
HELP

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