Pdf portfolio flex help

I know this is probably going to be for nothing since I doubt many people have been doing custom portfolios using flex yet but I have an extremely annoying problem I was hoping to get help with. I had to create my own version of the Revolve layout because the client I am working for wanted some extra things that couldnt be created using the default editor. After spending a good amount of time my component works and it does everything I need it to except for one very important thing. Upon opening a portfolio with my custom layout set as the default nothing happens and the screen is blank. I was able to figure out this is because my _host has an empty collection.items array. This only happens when I start with my layout, if I start with another and then switch to my layout everything works perfectly. I tested it more and found out that if I replace my custom Revolve component with a regular DataGrid. Everything works fine. I only get a blank pdf array when I add a custom component. Please let someone know why pdf portfolios hate me. Also, the fact that there is no test environment for them sucks, I have been forced to use Alert statement debugging.
**Update**
I did some further testing and it isnt just my custom component that portfolios hate. I made a simple custom that was a canvas with a datagrid inside and it did the same error.

Windows
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Navigators

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