Yes, it's definitely an issue. It slows down the syncing terribly.

You get all those orphaned blocks when they get sent to you in parallel by the peers you're connected to (that's what I read and I still don't really get what's going on).

Apparently it's been fixed and it will make it into 0.9.3.

But if you can't wait here's how I went around it. Just launch bitcoind with -maxconnections=3.
Since the parallelism is lower this reduces the amount of orphans dramatically. I find the speed still pretty good with 3 connections.

After you're done with the syncing, leave out this parameter cause the more connections you have the better. There shouldn't be orphans after the syncing.

Hope it helps.