Thanks for your input, had already forgotten this thread =)
I have sorted it out by myself in a similar fashion. The problem was that I generated forms inside of ui:repeat. Obviously, there is some crazy bug that occurs in this situation. Once I put the form around the ui:repeat, everything would work.
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