IPhone 4S Photo Library and Photo Stream Dead

Do these symptoms sound familiar to anybody:
I've been taking some short video clips on my iPhone 4S of a bathroom remodeling project.
From the Camera app:
I can view those new videos just fine from the camera app, after hitting the ... not sure exactly what it's called:  the little thumbnail button on the lower left to view photos & videos you've shot on your iPhone.
Some of these recent videos, however, show up with an all-black thumbnail.
When I pop up the Photos app:
I can view previously-taken photos, videos, albums, events, etc.
When I touch "Camera Roll," the Photos app crashes.
When I touch "Photo Stream," the Photos app crashes.
In iPhoto on my Mac:Photostream shows only the photos taken before I started taking these videos.
When I plug my iPhone into iTunes/iPhoto on my Mac:It shows no photos at all on my iPhone, not even those shot long before.
I'm thinking about upgrading its OS to 5.0.1, to see if that ... knocks something loose.  It may, however, cause me to lose those videos entirely, and I can't transfer them to my computer, since it can't see them.  I have no idea whether an iPhone backup would for-sure back them up, since their very existence seems ... disputed (the Camera app sees them, Photo Stream doesn't, they crash the Photos app, etc.).

Well, upgrading to 5.0.1, on the Mac rather than directly on the iPhone, did appear to, back up, wipe the phone, and restore from the backup.  And:
The movies still appear in the Camera app, with no black thumbnails.
They do now show up OK in the Photos app's "Camera Roll."
They do not appear in Photo Stream.  Not quite true: One of them just now appeared.
They do appear as new photos in iPhoto when I hook up to the Mac.
All of my previous on-iPhone photos do appear as new photos in iPhoto
I took one new one photo and one new video, and I have seen the photo, but the new video has not yet appeared.  I don't see it on the iPad either.
Oh, is Photo Stream literally, exactly that:  Photo Stream?!  Videos don't get sent over the stream?

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