Dropped table still has name in use

I used the TOAD feature of "Rebuild Table" on a table I am experimenting with (no important data in it). It renamed the table to table_x ok, copied the data to it, dropped the original table, then when it went to re-create the table, it gave ORA-00955: name is aready used by an existing object. At the time, I was also testing an alter schema DDL trigger which had problems, so it's possible this had some interaction (I've since dropped the trigger).

A select from all_objects and even sys.obj$ looking for the table name, returns nothing. But trying to create even a dummy table using that name gives the error.

Any ideas? TIA. Oh, Oracle 9.2.0.1 Received on Thu Apr 29 2004 - 15:46:51 CDT