IOS 5.0.1 bug - PDFs not syncing to iBooks

I just managed to update my 3rd gen iPod Touch to iOS 5.0.1 after going through major issues throughout the updating process. Basically, it just hung up during installation and gave an error saying the update failed. I tried again, it asked me to restore the iPod to its factory settings for some reason (which meant I lost all my data) and then it finally installed the update. Anyway, I managed to restore all the data from an earlier backup thankfully.
Everything seems to be working now except for iBooks! In iTunes, it shows my PDFs under Books. On the iPod, there are no PDFs shown in iBooks. And I tried to sync the files again, but they just don't seem to.
Oh, and iBooks was working absolutely fine before this update!
So after this experience, I am NOT updating my iPad...atleast not until Apple releases a bug-free version of iOS!

Yes they are in the same location as before.
But anyway, I just managed to get the PDFs back on iBooks. As they were still showing up in iTunes on the ipod device, that meant they were there but not showing up in iBooks. So, I deselected all the files and re-synced to delete all the pdf data on the ipod. Then re-synced again to put all the same files back. And now it works!
So, for some reason the iBooks backup doesn't work with the new iOS update. And apparently the solution is to erase the old data and re-sync again!
Thanks for your help anyway.

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