Why doesn't my photos in my iCloud backup restore?

Hi,
Just did a factory reset on my iPhone 4S running 5.0.1 yesterday.
It seems that none of my old photos from "Camera Album" restores, although I've got more than 4.7 gbs photos stored according to iCloud?
This bothers me, as it is more than 1.000 photos that I've apparantly lost.

Camera Album = Camera Roll. My mistake. All my photos were on the camera roll, and the backup have been done (apparantly, due to the photo backup size being 4.7GBs), but the backup doesn't return to the phone?
I selected the iCloud backup when restoring my phone, but as said, the only thing that have returned to my phone is my contacts.
And my apologies for the messy language - Us danes don't ace english. :-)
Message was edited by: puttitat. Apology added.

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