Shared variable bug

Hello all:
With the attached project, run the shared variable bug.vi and press the button labeled Press me First.  Then press the button labeled Press me Second.  On both string indicators there shoud be text that say Hi There! in both string indicators.  However, sometimes I only get only a Hi OR There! (did I say OR ) and sometimes and empty string for both itring indicator outputs.
Note this only happens when you FIRST run the VI.  To repeat the bug, you will have to stop the VI and unload it from memory.
Can somebody else confirm this behavior?  If confirmed, this is obviously a bug.
Robert
Attachments:
Shared Variable Bug.zip ‏25 KB

There seems to be some sort of latency when you read the value of the shared variable.   I took your example, but I moved the read of the shared var. outside of the loop.  After the first boolean is pressed, it took two loop iterations ~100 mS for the shared variable value (read) to update.
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Attachments:
Shared Variable Bug.vi ‏44 KB

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