OS X 10.3.1 in a ObjC++ (.mm) code file

I have a problem with NSImage and corrupt images. I call [image isValad] and it returns YES. But I get a log message in the debugger:

Corrupt JPEG data: 962 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9

So obviously NSImage knows that the image is not valid.

Is there a way to get this message? If so I can skip rendering the image.

The real problem comes when NSImage is released:

Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”.

The call tree is from the debugger (last call last): -[NSImage dealloc] -[NsImage _freeRepresentation:] -[NSImage cachedImageRep dealloc] _NXFreeCache objc_msgSend_stret

And my program crashes. Basically this is unacceptable but I am at a loss to figure out how to avoid it. I check the header with custom code to weed out obviously bad images but I can’t catch all of them. Can I catch signals?