How do I troubleshoot sudden iPad "Memory Full" condition?

My 64GB iPad was only 60% full, now after turning on iCloud, it is suddenly 99.9% full. There's no way that I could have added 25+ GB of data to my iPad! I used to have over 900 songs and over 250 music videos at the 60% full level, now I only have 12 songs and 1 music video at 99.9%.
The same thing happened to my new 64GB iPhone 4S and my wife's 32GB iPhone 4 (which even froze up because the memory is supposedly full). This all started within a few weeks of upgrading to OS 5.1 and turning on iCloud. (Which I wrongly assumed would save memory and make my life easier!)
How do I find out what files, data, programs, apps, or whatever to delete and how?

This should not be. In iTunes (on the MBP, iPad connected) when you see "other" having a large amount of GB's (more than 1 or 2 GB) there are a lot of "faulty things" on your iPad, restore from a somewhat older backup when connected to iTunes MBP..
But more probable you have a lot of "doubles" on your iPad, because there is something gone wrong with the first sync with iCloud: look in your iTunes Music Library (as well as in your iTunes Library in your computer). There are several threads on this forum for that issue.

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I live in a single-family home, so the neighborly bandwidth can't be very high or growing at a high rate. For sure, I wouldn't expect things to suddenly stop working but rather a slow degradation. Also, I cannot maintain a wireless connection when standing next to the router.
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