Teamsite: IWDataDeploy FAILED TDbSchemaSynchronizer create failure

Interwoven Teamsite is the worst piece of software i have ever used, and googling its errors gives you 0 hits. I am going to do the world a favor and change that!

Problem: I needed to deploy DCT data to the table which teamsite uses for its own record keeping. The file which takes care of this deployment is called AREA_dd.cfg where area is the name of the DCT. After making sure that teamsite is using the correct db info, and that all fields i was deploying existed i was getting the error: IWDataDeploy FAILED, where the root cause might have been:
(from the log in OD_HOME/OpenDeployNG/log/iwddd_something.log)

DBD: SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME='IWTRACKER'
DBD: Table [iwtracker] exists.
DBD: DEFAULT__DEVICE__MAIN_STAGING not registered
DBD: Error occured in TDbSchemaSynchronizer
DBD: ERROR:TDbSchemaSynchronizer create failure.


(DEVICE is the name of my DCT)
Solution:
This solution is a hack, but it works. Open the database you are trying to commit to from teamsite, and run the following SQL query:
INSERT INTO IWTRACKER (NAME) VALUES('DEFAULT__DEVICE__MAIN_STAGING');
COMMIT;

where instead of 'DEFAULT__DEVICE__MAIN_STAGING' put the thing which the previous error claims is not registered. Save the DCT again and tail the log, the deployment should succeed. (if it fails, you are probably screwed because the support is terrible and the documentation is teh suck)

edit 11/6/2009: I no longer use teamshite, so please dont ask me any questions about this evil thing, i wont know the answers.