I work with some really cool Dev's... so on my Pilot team, they took the time out to help me with my Eclipse env issues from this weekend.

The DB errors were only specific to one specific test. My other tests were good (db connection wise) so i was on the right track. that feels good.

My acceptance tests weren't running because I was not extending them correctly! Victor, the dev I'm working with, showed me that I need to set up the Acceptance Tests and extend them correctly to the right class. This resolved the JUit issue - now I see "run as JUnit" avail for my tests.