[iPhone SDK] Several modal views

Hello Professionals,
I have some problems with managing several modal views. So imagine that I have tabBarController with several bars. Then I create another one UIViewController with 2 buttons and display it on top of my tabBarController with help of presentModalViewController method. When I press on one of two buttons I dismiss the first one controller by calling dismissModalViewControllerAnimated and immediately after that create the second controller and display it on the screen (again with help of presentModalViewController). The first controller disappears fine but the second one does not show on the screen at all. tabBarController displays instead of second view controller. What's wrong?
Thanks.

Okay, I've run into this same issue. In my case I'm popping up a modal controller to allow a user to enter authentication credentials and then dismissing the modal controller when they select a "login" button. But, if they enter incorrect information, then I pop up a new authentication modal controller to allow the user to correct their authentication credentials. Unfortunately this happens fast enough that the old controller hasn't dismissed yet (using animated:YES) and the attempt to present the new modal controller fails (I presume that the "pending" dismiss zaps both the old modal controller and the new one I was attempting to present).
So, how does one "wait" for the old modal view controller to finish being dismissed???
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