3Drinks: Hah! You're right, the problem did resurface. But it looks like clearing the Media cache worked. We shall see if that actually fixed the issue for good.
Here's how I did it: Menu/Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/"All" Tab/Media Storage (with all the crashing, this one is stressful to reach)/"Clear Data" button/Confirm
Then reboot the phone, and your media should all be there (except for the pictures I incorrectly advised that you delete. Sorry about that, I really thought that worked...).
I'm running into the same issues as all of you, and before i follow those steps i just wanted to clarify something... when you say reboot, do u just mean turning the phone off and then back on? Bear with me on this, i'm not too good with these types of things haha. My phone has been all sorts of slow and freezes all the time since i installed the new software OTA yesterday. And the battery drained in about an hour. Today the phone seems to be working almost normal, but i cant get my photos to come up. If you can clarify this for me, i'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
By reboot I meant to just power it down and then power it back up.
Thanks a lot. I'm about to do it. Crossing my fingers, hopes it work!