I didn't realize that you were dealing with a UIView and not a UIViewController (should have read your question better). I think what is happening is that the View is receiving notifications even after being released. Make sure to call dealloc in your UIView and remove itself as an observer.
Not sure if this is the reason, but when you add your view to the notification center, your selector is wrong.
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