diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3e1acf78..5fbcab62 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,15 +31,12 @@ script:
 after_failure:
   - sudo cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
   - sudo cat /var/log/nginx/error.log
-  - sudo ls -al 
+  - sudo ls -al
   - sudo ls -al data/config/
   - sudo cat data/config/shimmie.conf.php
   - sudo cat data/config/extensions.conf.php
-  - sudo cat /var/log/php5-fpm.log
-  - sudo cat /var/log/mysql.log
-  - sudo cat /var/log/mysql.err
 
 # configure notifications (email, IRC, campfire etc)
 #notifications:
-#  irc: "irc.freenode.org#travis"
+#  irc: "irc.freenode.org#shimmie"
 #
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/database.class.php b/core/database.class.php
index 06a31ff3..67237c1b 100644
--- a/core/database.class.php
+++ b/core/database.class.php
@@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ class Database {
 		$this->connect_engine();
 		$this->engine->init($this->db);
 
-		// FIXME: this causes problems with running via the PHP CLI
 		$this->beginTransaction();
 	}
 
@@ -394,7 +393,7 @@ class Database {
 	 * Execute an SQL query and return an PDO resultset
 	 */
 	public function execute($query, $args=array()) {
-		//try {
+		try {
 			if(is_null($this->db)) $this->connect_db();
 			_count_execs($this->db, $query, $args);
 			$stmt = $this->db->prepare($query);
@@ -413,10 +412,10 @@ class Database {
 				$stmt->execute($args);
 			}
 			return $stmt;
-		/*}
+		}
 		catch(PDOException $pdoe) {
 			throw new SCoreException($pdoe->getMessage()."<p><b>Query:</b> ".$query);
-		}*/
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/tests/all_tests.php b/tests/all_tests.php
index 1cb6c811..e5ec126e 100644
--- a/tests/all_tests.php
+++ b/tests/all_tests.php
@@ -53,33 +53,22 @@ foreach(_get_themelet_files(get_theme()) as $themelet) {
 
 _load_extensions();
 
-// Put the database into autocommit mode.
+// Put the database into autocommit mode. (We don't really need transactions for the test setup)
 $database->commit();
 
 // Create the necessary users for the tests.
-
 $userPage = new UserPage();
 $userPage->onUserCreation(new UserCreationEvent("demo", "demo", ""));
-//$database->commit(); // Need to commit the new user to the database.
-
-//$database->beginTransaction();
-
 $userPage->onUserCreation(new UserCreationEvent("test", "test", ""));
-//$database->commit(); // Need to commit the new user to the database.
-
-//$database->beginTransaction();
-
-// Continue
 
+// Fire off the InitExtEvent()
 $page = class_exists("CustomPage") ? new CustomPage() : new Page();
 $user = _get_user();
 send_event(new InitExtEvent());
 
-// Now we can run all the tests.
+// Now we can actually run all the tests.
 $all = new TestFinder("");
 $results = $all->run(new TextReporter());
 
-// At this point this isn't really necessary as the test machines are stateless.
-//$database->commit();
-
+// Travis-CI needs to know the results of the tests.
 exit ($results ? 0 : 1);