No, there is no problem with always using your own, method-local pool. You should be using pool drain instead of pool release though.
That's perfectly safe to call on the main thread. NSAutoreleasePool maintains a stack, so in this case you're just putting a new pool on top of the stack, then popping it off when you're done.
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