My Ipad won't restore fully from icloud.

My ipad 1 was stolen so I purchased an Ipad 3 and am desperately trying to reinstall all of my old data that I backed up to icloud.
I connect the ipad to wi-fi, insert my apple id and password and it starts.
Then I get the message -
"restore incomplete. Some items could not be downloaded from the store. If they are on your computer, you can restore them by syncing with itunes".
The items are not on my computer (mainly photos I'm missing).
If I wait, the install continues until it can go no further, I plug it in to the computer and it installs the remaining video and music files.
I've tried it a few times and at this point the photos never reappear.
But twice miracuously later the image files I want will appear, but then get greyed out and start to delete themselves?!
I've tried importing them via image capture and they won't appear.
Has anyone experienced anything like this?
The theft was annoying and I thought I had everything backed up, but now this is even more annoying!
Thanks

I have never restored from an iCloud backup to this point - but don't you get the option of several different backups that you can choose from when you restore from the iCloud backup - the last three backups that you have?
If you do get a choice, have you tried another one. You will have to erase the device and start all over again, if you choose to do that.

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