Pages for iPad is buggy, after few minutes edits become erratic

I have an iPad 1 with iOS5 and pages. I like pages as a word processor, but since the iOS5 upgrade and subsequent pages upgrade, it is buggy as ****. Has anyone else run into this? I've been waiting patiently, figuring Apple devs would protect their good name and get a patch out quickly, but it's been months now.
Symptoms:
At first Pages works fine, but after a few minutes editing a document, the cursor will start to move to the middle of words instead of the spaces in between. That's the clue things are about to get hairy. Then, any edit will appear somewhere else in the line.
As an example, look at the last sentence. If I touched the gap between "appear" and "somewhere" the cursor would appear "som|ewhere." If I then type something on the keyboard, the edit would occur in the middle of the word "Then," at the start of the sentence, or somewhere else in the previous sentence.
How on Earth can they leave a flagship product like this out there with these kind of bugs?
Any ideas how I can get this raised as a bug with Apple?
Thanks,
Peter

The misplaced cursor seems to rather be a misrendering of the type. For example, the underlining of misspelled words also shifts over, as well as the highlight when word is double-tapped. I only have this problem when scrolling to a new page in the document. I have gotten in the habit of doing the following nearly every time I go to a new page: I place an insertion point, then quickly hit space bar and delete. The type on the new page will re-render in the correct place. Then I can edit as usual. Pages also often hangs up and requires quitting of the app (not just hiding). Every time I see an update available on the App Store, I am hoping it is Pages, but alas, it never is.

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