Reconnect not working in TCP-Client

Hello,

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't catch it...
I'm using POE::Component::Client::TCP in my application (and also the 
server component for the server app), and try to implement reconnection 
after a disconnect. But, when I drop the connection (e. g., kill the 
server) the client crashes with

"<us> alias does not exist at 
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/POE/Component/Client/TCP.pm line 290"

(and of course some more POE stuff about the kernel etc.).
I've "solved" the problem by commenting out line 290 in TCP.pm, but 
obviously, this is not a real solution. Here's the line from TCP.pm 
which throws the error:

$kernel->alias_remove($alias) if defined $alias;

I've added a print before, and $alias IS defined (I'm using it in my 
app, see connection setup parameters below). Digging in the code of POE 
a bit, it seems AFAIK that this error is thrown when the alias to be 
removed does not belong to the current session. But, I don't have real 
deep knowledge of POE's inner working, so, I don't know how to fix this, 
or even, if I've interpreted the error it correctly.

Here's the code snippet I'm using to build the connection:

POE::Component::Client::TCP->new
          ( RemoteAddress => $remotehost,
            RemotePort    => $remoteport,
            ServerInput   => \&handle_input,
            Connected     => \&handle_connect,
            ConnectError  => \&handle_connect_error,
            Disconnected  => \&handle_disconnect,
            Alias         => $conn_alias,
            InlineStates  => {
                               send_msg => \&handle_send_msg,
                             },
          );

And here's my disconnect handler:

sub handle_disconnect {
    my $log = 
Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Statistics.collector.handle_disconnect');	
    $log->info ("entering handle_disconnect...");
    my ( $kernel, $heap ) = @_[ KERNEL, HEAP ];
    my $session_id = $_[SESSION]->ID;
    $heap->{status} = 1;
    $_[KERNEL]->delay( reconnect => 60 );
    $log->info ("leaving handle_disconnect...");
}

I hope someone can shed some light on this, and tell me how to fix it.

Thanks in advance,

Harald

P.S.: The complete code of the application is online at starcat.sf.net, 
part "collector_poe.pl", if the snippets are not enough.