Arduino/Touchshield serial comms HELP!!!!!

I'm having so much trouble getting serial comms to work between the my arduino duemilanove and touchshield slide.

I can sucessfully send a character between the arduino and the screen, however doing it the other way, from screen to the arduino (in response to a touch for example) just doesn't seem to work.

I'm using hardware serial on the touchshield and AFsoftserial on the arduino as the example suggests, but I'm having so luck at all.

Does someone have some simple test code that is known to work? I really want to get this sorted as otherwise my touchshield is pretty useless :cry: