Class Method Crashes app

[v3interactive]

when I call dismissBar I get the first log, if I try and do anything with logOutBar it crashes. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I suspect it has to do with logOutBar being release (which if i don't realease it, it still crashes). Any help would be appreciated.

-(void) loadView {
UINavigationController * nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self setNavController:nav];
nav.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor grayColor];// colorWithRed:0.3176f green:0.3568f blue:0.3647f alpha:1.0f];
CAGradientLayer *gradient = [CAGradientLayer layer];
gradient.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 320.0, 44.0);

gradient.colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjectsid)[[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor], (id)[[UIColor colorWithRed:0.7843 green:0.7843 blue:0.7843 alpha:1.0] CGColor], nil];
[[[nav navigationBar] layer] insertSublayer:gradient atIndex:0];

[nav release];

MainNavTableViewController * main = [[MainNavTableViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];
[[self navController] setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:main, nil]];
[main release];

[[navController view] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"green_background.png"]]];
[self setView:[navController view]];

logOutBar = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 386.0, 320.0, 60.0)];
UIImageView *img = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"logout_bar.png"]];
[logOutBar addSubview:img];
[logOutBar setOpaque:YES];
[img release];
[[self view] addSubview:logOutBar];
[logOutBar release];

logOutBtn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[logOutBtn setFrame:CGRectMake(200.0, 386.0, 70, 30.0)];
[logOutBtn setTitle:@"" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[logOutBtn addTarget:self action:@selector(logout forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[logOutBtn setOpaque:YES];
[[self view] addSubview:logOutBtn];
}

+(void) dismissBar{
NSLog(@"dismissBar");
NSLog(@"%@", logOutBar);
//logOutBar.alpha = 0.0;
}

[smithdale87]

Where have you declared logoutBar? is it static?