drupal six

Cross posted from the ubercart forum, where I am not getting a response

So I'm currently building a drupal store framework along with a simple theme to enable me to create future ubercart stores with greater ease. I'm working (and have largely completed) building a generic theme that shouldn't require much further work to complete. However I've run into a hiccup. I've read of it in a few places online, and the solution is generally "I just said screw it , and it reinstalled, so all was good"