fnDestroy() doesn't work on Interner Explorer 8

Hi everybody,
I've started using DataTables plugin recently and it is just awesome, but I have came across the issue I can't resolve so far.

In Internet Explorer 8, when I call fnDestroy() on dataTable object or try to reinitialize dataTable object wwith bDestroy option set, it gives me following error:
'oFeatures' is null or not an object jQuery.dataTables.js line 1591
at which point IE hangs. The same code works perfectly fine with FF and Chrome

I'm using jquery 1.8.3 , jquery ui 1.9.2 and datatables 1.9.4

BTW, I've seen similar questions on this forum but none of them has a solution.

Thanks in advance for your help