IOS 5 update erased all my pictures

I plugged my Iphone in and updated to IOS 5.
When all finished and done, unplugged the phone to check it out. Went through the walkthrough, turned on Icloud and such. Was checking out the new features then noticed when I opened my Photo icon, all the pictures I had taken with my phone previously to the update was gone. I thought I would just back up from my older back up, but discovered after plugging in, my older back up was from the moment I plugged the phone in.
Were all my pictures lost or would they be saved somewhere in Icloud or in a file on my Windows PC. (please not the pictures were pictures taken on the iphone and not ones that were previously synced up from my computer)
Any help would be appreciated.

Same here, all of my photos and videos are gone, and yes I did a full backup.
This *****, apple guys, are my photos and pics gone for good?
Also things got sketchy doing the update, was in a recovery loop for over an hour, kept getting a time out error 3004.
Finally once the ipad was back up, it asked if I wanted to start as a new ipad or restore from back up, I did the restore and it restored settings, but no media.
FYI, apple should explicitly choose to back up all data taken from the camera both photo and video and keep it in itunes with the back up.
Can't get my head around how such a smart company can drop the ball like this.

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