MP3s flagged as Audiobook do not play in iOS5

Just upgraded to iOS5, now any MP3 that I have changed the media type to be an audiobook will not play. When I try to play it just goes through all the files on the album and skips through them then dumps me back at the selection screen.
If I change that MP3 to be music, it works fine.
Change it back, it will play once, then never play again.
Anyone else experience this?

I found out the issue isn't with it being tagged as Audiobook but rather it's iTunes that is causing the problem (or maybe how iTunes is tagging them) since when I deleted them on my iPod and used a third party program called "CopyTrans Suite" and it's freeware app that is similar to iTunes Audiobooks worked flawlessly again in iOS 5.
It must be the current version of that program since iOS 5 changed a lot of things and causes older versions to report an error on iPods (when there is nothing actually wrong) and is worth using until iTunes is fixed. (10.5.2 is garbage atm)
You can download this program here: (other apps in suite are trial, but the freeware iTunes like one is all you need)
http://www.copytrans.net/download.php
Worked flawlessly for me so far, and no re-encoding or anything ether. Hope it helps others.

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