Had the same problem like you. The problem is, it gets deallocated before the delegate method gets called. Simply put a retain in your start method and a release in your finished method (and don't forget to release it in the error methods).
This will let the object at life as long as the request is performing.
Please post the code where you're creating the instance of a SOAPRequest object using.
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