MobileME's Find My iPhone/iPod: working for you?

Hi guys,
have any of you gotten the "Find My iPhone" feature to work?
I've followed pretty much all Apple suggests and also deleting/reconfiguring my MobileME account on my Touch to no avail. On the FMP page it shows my iPod online as well as ID'ing it correctly but it simply cannot get a location.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I see no mention of ipods on the Find my iphone page in Mobileme.
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/whats-new/

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