Can't read PDF's in iBooks after upgrade to IOS 5

After upgrading to IOS 5 (and selecting no sync to avoid PDF's disappearing) I can't open any of my PDF's in iBooks. I can't see covers, and if I select any of them, they only change to a "selected color", but they never open. Please help.

I just opened iBooks for the first time since upgrading my iPad to iOS 5. At first, I saw all my PDFs, but the cover pages were rendered in generic text. Then... they suddenly disappeared. I had all sorts of important references, manuals, documents for a trip I'm about to take. All gone.
From what I'm reading here, it looks like I'm not getting them back easily. Even if I can use tools to extract them from a backup (now in iCloud, hmm...) I'll have to get them into another app, so I can use them. If I can't get them back from iCloud, and they're really gone from the iPad, I'm screwed.
So very un-Apple.
I'll submit a report to Apple. I hope they fix this, but I'm surprised that such a big bug got through.

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