JDBC -- can't create table

I am running Postgres 6.3 on a Linux box (S.u.S.E. 5.3, kernel 2.0.35)
and connecting from another Linux box.  Both are running Java 1.1.7
from Blackdown.  I can connect to the remote machine and even create a
database, but I am unable to create a table.

I've included the code as an attachment.  The exact output is as follows:

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loading JDBC class "postgresql.Driver"...

connecting to jdbc:postgresql://miranda:5432/factory...

creating skid table...
ERROR:  cannot create skids

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I do wind up with an empty file named "skids" on the server at
/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/factory.  I can't understand if this is just
some simple permissions problem or something else I overlooked.  Does
anybody see anything obvious?  Is there a way to get a more detailed
error message than "cannot create skids"?  I created the database by
hand with psql as user "factory" on the server before running this
test code.

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