This is going to be one part ranting rage and 4 parts desperation.

My setup. I use two PC's (one desktop and one laptop); one network drive and one ipad. ios6 and itunes 10.

Rant section...
I've always been hesitant about apple products. They always insist on doing so much crap behind the scenes that you don't know about until it is too late and cannot be undone (like now).

The problem:
All the bookmarks and saved pages i've saved on my ipad has been deleted or removed. There are no bookmarks other than the useless ones preloaded on the ipad. I believe this happened after my last sync to itunes. It will take at least 8 hours to find and recover all the bookmarks I've lost; some will be near impossible to recover; including one obscure article that is an exceptionally well written analysis on HCB's work. After 4 hours, I have yet to relocate this article I found.