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Hooray!
I was getting the impression this was a C++ issue and not a C++/QML mixing issue.
In general you want to set all your pointers to NULL in the constructor as a matter of course, because you should be deleting them in the destructor and that could potentially get called before the secondary objects have all be constructed/initialized. Good to learn the hard way though. 
