Remove expired rental movies on iPad

I cannot remove old (over 1 year) expired movies from my iPad. The only place you can see them is in the drop down when the ipad is synced to itunes. They are greyed out. if you click on the down arrow on a movie it takes you to ITunes store to purchase or rent again. You cannot see them on the ipad through the Vidoe app/movies and they do not show on the tabs that you use to choose what you want to sync. This is just bothersome becasue i like to keep the ipad clean. Here is a screen shot - might be helpful. I updated to IOS 5.0.1 but I am sure that is not the problem. I have already tried a hard reboot without luck.

i have the exact same issue.
set up is => ipad 2, ios5.01, itunes 10.5, osx 10.7.2.
six old rental movies show up on the ipad's drop down menu. all are greyed out. the only way to delete them is to check, in the summary page, the "manually manage music and videos" option. once i do that i can delete the six old rental movies. alas, the next time the ipad is connected to itunes, the movies show up again. i tried to restore original settings for the ipad several times and that did not work. i restored from backup, that did not work.
i should add that the rental movies do not show up on the ipad when launching the video app. the only place they show up is on that drop down menu as described above. to add insult to injury, i think the ipad is still trying to "download" the movies which is why now, and since i upgraded to ios 5, i can never complete the sync process (whether through the usb port or through wifi). the sync process will always hang eternally at step 5 or 6 with the message "waiting for items to copy".
i think this is an ios 5 bug. i have seen other discussions here that point to the same error, but with different causes such as voice memos, photos... i believe old rentals fall in the same category. although other users have found solutions to the hang sync by making changes to settings for voice memos, photos... unfortunately i have not found anyway of getting rid of the old rental movies as of yet.
any help out there?

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