Why is my SMS Mailbox full after going to iOS 5?

Ok so after "upgrading" to iOS 5 I get this message when I send messages "Your SMS mailbox is full. New messages cannot be recieved until you delete some messages". After hours on the phone with AT&T and Apple, I did figure some stuff out. 75,000 text message is the limitation of the SMS application. I found through google, an application called PhoneView from ecamm(not free) that will backup and all data on the iPhone but additional it tells you the number of messages. I had 101,732 messages on my iPhone 4. This is because I've had an iPhone since the original they were released in 2007. I've accrued 101,000 message in over 4 years time. At no point was this an issue until i downloaded iOS 5. iOS 4 had no problem with my amount of text messages. I was simply told to delete the messages by my helpful and knowledgable Apple Call Center rep. I wasn't explained why all of a sudden this is a problem. i have over 14GB of free space on my iPhone 4 but my "SMS Mailbox is full." So now since there is no application that has the rights to manage iPhone iOS 4 or higher (i.e. iOS 5) data/messages I have to go thru and manually delete and the 27,000 messages I don't need one conversation at a time. Thanks iOS 5! So this is my reward for being a loyal iPhone user since the beginning. Why is my SMS mailbox full at 75,000 messages? Is not the new iMessage service encouraging even more use on messaging? Please explain

I think I found a solution!
I've had this same issue since I upgraded last night.  I tried deleting messages to no avail.  I still had to turn my phone off and back on to receive messages and even then I didn't always receive all messages queued up.  Today I've been fiddling around with settings to see if I could make a difference.  My means were not very scientific, so I can't pinpoint exactly what made things work, but I'll try to recount the steps I took:
1.  I had toggled off iMessage support which made no difference
2.  I went into the iCloud settings (Settings->iCloud) and did the following:
     a.  Turn OFF bookmarks
     b.  Turn OFF "Find My iPhone"
     c.  Under "Storage & Backup" I turned OFF iCloud Backup
3.  I then went back to the Messages settings (Settings->Messages) and turned iMessage back on.  Instantly I got a new text message notification. 
Since performing these steps I've been able to send and receive text messages with no issues at all.  I have no clue if this will work for others, but thought I'd share.

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