rapid touches crash my game - cocos2d-iphone

I've got a CCLayer class with touch enabled and the following methods:
-(void)ccTouchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
-(void)ccTouchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
If I rapidly tap on the iPad screen repeatedly, it will crash-- but not to the point of getting a stack trace.. It will just freeze... The console will read:
2012-10-17 08:43:06.445 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation stopped
2012-10-17 08:43:06.448 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation started with frame interval: 4.00
2012-10-17 08:43:07.075 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation stopped
2012-10-17 08:43:07.081 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation started with frame interval: 60.00
2012-10-17 08:43:12.557 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation stopped
2012-10-17 08:43:12.561 game[5432:607] cocos2d: animation started with frame interval: 4.00
Is there a way to rate limit the ccTouchesBegan/ccTouchesEnded methods? This even happens if I remove all the code inside those event handlers-- it's just the act of triggering that method ultra frequently that seems to bog everything down.

Is this happening in a new cocos2d project with just the touch modifications, too? If so, file a bug report on the cocos2d forum.
The log seems to indicate that cocos2d is either being paused or stopped, or both. Check if the CCDirector functions startAnimation, stopAnimation, pause and resume are being called by setting a breakpoint. Check the callstack who is making these calls. If it comes from your code, fix it. If not and this happens in a new project, file a bug report.

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