IOS 5 Photo Issues

So, after the upgrade to iOS 5, I'm having a million issues with my photos. It's as if my iPad (and my iPhone and iPod touch) won't recognize the 15,000+ pictures I have in various folders.  It will recognize a few and then sync, but it wound up giving me blank albums, the photos are out of order or in different folders.  I'm at the end of my rope and I'm hoping someone can help. (and yes, I deleted the photo cache; that just seemed to make it work)
Am I alone in this issue?

To me it seems that the ordering is only broken in album/folders that were imported. If you create any new album on your device, sorting is as with iOS 4 (by date/time)
This gives an easy way (workaround) to have photos be sorted the old way with iOS5:
Import all your photos via iTunes. They will be in wrong order in the imported folders/album(s).
Create a new album
Copy all photos into the new album. (You end up with two albums with the same content. As the pictures are linked only into the second album, this should not use any extra space)
The new album contains photos in the right order.
Never use the old album, just irgnore it. Once Appple fixes the stupid bug, you may remove the album you manually created.
Best,
  Jonas
PS: There are already several threads on the topic.

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