Air 3.9 kills appendChild ! someone save 'the children' !

Air3.9 is buggy when parseing xml - when i use appendChild it arbitrarily won't see something it would find just fine in previous versions.

I can't roll back to the previous versions though because of the 'microphone access' bug that fails any app submitted to the app-store.

HELP . I realllly rely on my boring xml data !

-Jerry