[iPhone] Invisible Navigation Back button item?

I'm a little perplexed on this one. I've started a project based off the Navigation Controller template in Xcode, which is table based, and I push a view controller onto the stack, it shows up just fine.
The problem is, after this new view is pushed, there's no Back button in the navigation Bar. Well, not visible at least. If I click on the navigation bar on the left side, where the Back button should be, it goes Back! But I can't figure out why it's not showing.
There's a property like self.navigationItem.hidesBackItem or something like that, but setting it to NO had no effects.
Anyone?

Aha!
You nailed it. Problem solved. And I guess that makes sense, the Back button I guess is derived from the title of the previous view (seems to me though it should have some default value like "Back").
Thanks so much
JB

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