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Somewhat covered in the DVD “Sharpening Profiled Hand Tools” by Larry Williams. But on the whole, it sounds like you should be checking the fit of the iron to the bed of the plane and to the wedge.
Make sure the blade is as clean and flat as you can manage in the areas that bed against the ramp and the wedge.
Clean things as best you can to get a good surface and then you can use soot from a candle or just scribble with a dry-erase marker. Put the soot or marker on the iron, fit things up and then take apart and examine the bed and the wedge. You want to see even “staining” of the mating surfaces. Take of as little as possible to make things right. Work on one surface at a time. Be careful with the wedge shape, it should have a double taper to properly eject shavings.
Just a good cleaning of the bed to get out every last bit of gunk stuck in the corners may be the most helpful.
Be careful, be patient and go slow.
Other sources of information that you may find helpful include Matt Bickford’s new book, Mike Dunbar’s book on restoring tools, I think Kingshot had a few words on the subject too, and lots of browsing the internet. But on the whole, same as any other woodie you sometimes have to do a little custom fitting of the bed & wedge to the blade.