> What I do is I iterate over the db folder and delete all contents, as
> returned by the java.io API.
> 
> I delete the db in the tearDown, see it deleted, but then in setup I'm
> told that it already exists.

Do you delete the db folder itself? Or just its contents? Try making sure
that the entire db folder is gone; perhaps an empty folder is causing the
"db exists" problem that you are seeing.

thanks,

bryan