Don't ever rely on retain counts directly. What's happened is that during the initialization process, some piece of code has retain ed and autorelease d the object. Because you can't tell how many times an object has been autorelease d, you don't actually know what the real retain count is.
Adam is right that you shouldn't be overly concerned about retain counts.
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