Urgent, SharedObject not working on iPad 2?

Thanks for the reply Peter.

I have heard from a few players that reinstalling the app has fixed their problem. So it seems like they get a corrupt Shared Object the first time they play it?

The game is a quite simple hangman game, so the saving is done after each turn a character is chosen.

The shared object is set at startup:

so = SharedObject.getLocal("HMgameAR");

When the game has initiated, I check the current game data:

private function checkCurrentGame():void {

     if (so.data['gamePart'] == undefined) {

          so.data['gamePart'] = "startMenu";

     }

     if (so.data['topScore'] == undefined) {

          so.data['topScore'] = 0;

     }

     if (so.data['dictionaryPos'] == undefined) {

          so.data['dictionaryPos'] = 0;

     }

     if (so.data['dictionary'] == undefined) {

          so.data['dictionary'] = getRandomWordArray();

          // this is an array with numbers from 1 to 400

          // (numbers of words in the dictionary)

     }

     // do game specific updates

     var tGamePart:String = so.data['gamePart'];

     if (tGamePart == "startMenu") { return; }

     if (tGamePart == "selectLevel") { continue_selectLevel(); }

     else if (tGamePart == "guessWord") { continue_guessWord(); }

     else if (tGamePart == "writeWord") { continue_writeWord(); }

}

The state is saved each time a player is guessing a character:

public function so_guessCharacter():void {

     so.data['gamePart']    = "guessWord";

     so.data['gameVer']     = gameVer;

     so.data['gameLevel']   = gameLevel;

     so.data['secretWord']  = secretWord;

     so.data['lettersLeft'] = lettersLeft;

     so.data['turn']        = turn;

     so.data['tries']      = tries;

     so.data['guessArray']  = guessArray;

     so.data['score1']      = score1;

     so.data['score2']      = score2;

     so.data['status']      = status;

}

Also after each round, this function is run to get the next secret word (a number for the dictionary array):

private function getNextWordNr():int {

     // get current position and add 1

     var tNr:int = so.data['dictionaryPos'];

     tNr++;

     // randomize new dictionary if array is done

     if (tNr > 399){

          so.data['dictionary'] = getRandomWordArray();

          tNr = 0;

     }

     so.data['dictionaryPos'] = so.data['dictionary'][tNr];

     return so.data['dictionaryPos'];

}

It's the getNextWordNr() function that is causing the worst problems, since it returns 0 for the players without a working Shared Object, so they get the same secret word every time they play...

As you see I am not using the flush() function, could that be the solution? It's a bit tricky when I can't reproduce the problem. And since I will have to wait about a week for a new version to be approved by Apple I need to make sure it's fail-proof this time..

I appreciate your help!

Best,

Andreas