diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 57f9df3efe..a930a0e9f2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
     ramiro
     Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
+    remco@diji.biz
     rhettg@gmail.com
     Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
     Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
diff --git a/django/test/simple.py b/django/test/simple.py
index 88e6b49925..0cecc6b4fc 100644
--- a/django/test/simple.py
+++ b/django/test/simple.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import unittest, doctest
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.core import management
 from django.test.utils import setup_test_environment, teardown_test_environment
 from django.test.utils import create_test_db, destroy_test_db
 from django.test.testcases import OutputChecker, DocTestRunner
@@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ def run_tests(module_list, verbosity=1, extra_tests=[]):
 
     old_name = settings.DATABASE_NAME
     create_test_db(verbosity)
-    management.syncdb(verbosity, interactive=False)
     unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=verbosity).run(suite)
     destroy_test_db(old_name, verbosity)
     
diff --git a/django/test/utils.py b/django/test/utils.py
index 039a6dd7a2..9939e36fa4 100644
--- a/django/test/utils.py
+++ b/django/test/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import sys, time
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.db import connection, transaction, backend
+from django.core import management
 from django.dispatch import dispatcher
 from django.test import signals
 from django.template import Template
@@ -84,6 +85,8 @@ def create_test_db(verbosity=1, autoclobber=False):
     connection.close()
     settings.DATABASE_NAME = TEST_DATABASE_NAME
 
+    management.syncdb(verbosity, interactive=False)
+
     # Get a cursor (even though we don't need one yet). This has
     # the side effect of initializing the test database.
     cursor = connection.cursor()