ITunes 10.5 fails to sync Aperture photos to iPad2 with iOS5

I have the latest iTunes (10.5), newest OS X (10.7.2) and updated Aperture (3.2). I was almost happy with my iPad2 64GB 3G with the 4.x firmware just a week ago, only now and then photos failed to sync, deselecting "sync photos" and that way removing pics from iPad2 allowed me to sync even newer pics back to iPad2. I almost felt "appleish". I am running 11" MBA with 256GB and keep my Aperture masters on an external drive.
Now iOS5 cripples my iPad2 as syncing photos messes up the whole sync process.
The iOS5 update failed the first time, surely for the overloaded servers. Second time the next day update went fine. But syncing photos failed. "Waiting for -something- to copy" (I am not using english as language) emerged time after time and I had to manually stop sync process or just shut down iTunes. I powered off iPad2. I took the USB cord off. I restarted Lion. I repaired Aperture permissions. I repaired HD permissions. I repaired Aperture Library. I trashed the Aperture "iPod cache". I again restored iPad2 to the bare basics without any apps, any photos, anything. Now I have the iOS5 working with just some apps. I tried to sync one smart photo folder at a time and got to eight totalling 20 000 pics and then the sync stalled again. Restored again and again took the iPad2 as a new device, now only four smart folders stalled the sync. No matter if I had my external drive connected or not.
This is crazy. Just like in the 1990's with a PC. Now I don't have any pics on my iPad2 and presenting pics was the number one reason for getting the whole thing.
I dare not to upgrade my iPhone 3GS should my phone get jammed the same way.
How can we get support?! This is not how Apple should be.

I have a fix (worked on my iPhone 3GS and iPad 1), but, since we're all having slightly different issues, I'm not super-confident that it will work for everybody.
I rebuilt my Aperture database, which did absolutely nothing.  However, what it *did* do is finally let iTunes report accurately how many pictures it was *actually* syncing to my iPhone/iPad.  Before, it claimed it was syncing all 17k of my photos, but in reality was only copying 9k - 11k.  After the rebuild, however, iTunes showed that it would only be syncing 12k photos, and when looking at the counts next to the albums, I could see that in many albums it was only syncing 1 or 2 photos out of each whole album (of course, some albums copied in their entirety, and others were completely empty).
Since iTunes pulls Aperture's previews to copy images to iPhones and iPad, I deleted all of my Aperture library's previews, then re-updated all of them at "Fit within 1920px" size, which is the iPad's native preview image size....i.e. iTunes won't have to waste time "optimizing" photos if the Aperture previews are that size.  Updating my entire library of previews took about 12 hours.
After trashing iPod Photo Cache yet again, I synced my iPad....but even though iTunes was now reporting the proper amount of images in my library (as well as each album), the actual sync only copied about 9k photos.  Frustrated, I unchecked one random album that *hadn't* been copied, then synced again.  Bizarrely, during that sync, another 6k photos transferred to my iPad....why, I have no idea.  After the second sync, I re-checked my missing album and synced a third time....and this time, all of the missing photos copied.
I then imported some new images from my camera into Aperture and created a new album...this album synced to my iPad and iPhone with no problems whatsoever.
So, here are the steps, simplified:
1) Delete all previews from Aperture
2) Update all Aperture previews at 1920x size (I don't think the size matters, but it saves optimizing time during the iTunes sync)
3) Sync your iDevice with all of your desired photos/albums/events checked.
4) Sync again with one album unchecked.
5) Sync again with that album re-checked.
Note:  iTunes has a history of this type of behavior.  Previously, I've seen iTunes sync large libraries in batches...i.e. it will display "Copying x of 9000", then "Copying x of 3000" when copying 12k photos, for example.  For some reason it's only syncing one batch at a time in 10.5.  Good luck!

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