UIPickerView selectRow won't select last row during initialization - ios

Question

I have found similar questions here and here. I have tried the answers to these and other questions found on stackoverflow and Apple's developer forums, with no luck.
I created a fresh project to test this, and it works fine in that new project. I am iteratively removing differences between my new test project and the one exhibiting this issue. Any pointers would be most helpful.
I have a UIPickerView connected to my view controller. I want to initialize the UIPickerView to the last value selected by the user. However if this row is the last row in the picker, it shows the second-to-last row selected in the UI instead.
Meanwhile, logging shows the correct row index selected in the UIPickerView object instance.
Selecting any row besides the last row in the picker works fine.
I have tried calling the selectRow:inComponent:animated method from viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear, and viewDidAppear - none of these make any difference. I have also tried calling reloadAllComponents in various orders relative to row selection and data initialization - again, no difference.
Some code:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSParameterAssert(self.pickerView);
// Set pickerView data
self.pickerOptions = #[#"zero", #"one", #"two", #"three", #"four"];
// Picker View config
self.pickerView.dataSource = self;
self.pickerView.delegate = self;
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
NSInteger selectedIndex = ([self.pickerOptions count] -1);
NSLog(#"About to select row: %d", selectedIndex);
[self.pickerView selectRow:selectedIndex inComponent:0 animated:NO];
NSLog(#"Selected value is %d", [self.pickerView selectedRowInComponent:0]);
}
#pragma mark UIPickerViewDataSource
- (NSInteger)numberOfComponentsInPickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView {
return 1;
}
- (NSInteger)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView numberOfRowsInComponent:(NSInteger)component {
NSInteger numRows = [self.pickerOptions count];
NSLog(#"numRows: %d", numRows);
return numRows;
}
#pragma mark UIPickerViewDelegate
- (NSString *)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView titleForRow:(NSInteger)row forComponent:(NSInteger)component {
NSString *rowTitle = [self.pickerOptions objectAtIndex:(NSUInteger)row];
return rowTitle;
}
- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow:(NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component {
NSString *value = [self.pickerOptions objectAtIndex:(NSUInteger)row];
NSLog(#"User selected value: %#", value);
NSLog(#"index: %d", row);
}
Log output:
-[CCSelectorViewController viewDidAppear:] About to select row index: 4
-[CCSelectorViewController pickerView:numberOfRowsInComponent:] numRows: 5
-[CCSelectorViewController viewDidAppear:] Selected row index is 4
Here is the screenshot of the wrong row being selected:
http://imgur.com/FVvu9RA
This is using iOS6, XCode 4.6.1.
Any ideas?