Air 4.0 for iOS with external ABC SWFs do not work in release build

Hello Awesome Adobe Community,

I have an application that loads over 2000 external SWFs with probably about a third of them with actionscript byte code (ABC). When I package the app using ipa-debug, the external stripped SWFs work just fine. When I package a release build with ipa-app-store or ipa-ad-hoc the external SWFs do not work and they freeze the app when the asctionscript is supposed to run (a typical crash when loading uncompiled ABC).

I've already looked at a lot of possible causes and checked them, but most of these problems would break it in debug anyways.

• set the swf version to 20 in my compile options: swf-version=20
• used command line packaging using adt and following this:
  http://blogs.adobe.com/airodynamics/2013/03/08/external-hosting-of-secondary-swfs-for-air-apps-on-ios/
• set the loader context to: "ApplicationDomain.currentDomain"
• When running debug this is traced out, but I found that it should not break anything (and no other problems are being traced out when loading these external swfs):
  IDS_CONSOLE_SANDBOX
  IDS_CONSOLE_SECURITY_CONTEXT

I have been searching and searching and can't find anything to help me. Apple already approved my app (can't believe they let this slip by) and it is sitting on the App Store broken. Please help me!!!