All Text Messages Deleted

I was growing fond of the ability to keep all my messages without ever having to delete them for space. After all, I have several GB and text messages are small, so it's not like I'm going to run out. However, there is apparently a bug, experienced by many Android users, where it will randomly delete all of them for no apparent reason after a month or so. I think this is the only time that its happened to me. I have never had the auto-delete feature checked, so it does appear to be a bug. Different forums have shown I'm not the only one with the issue. Ugh.

Relevant link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669