Some trouble with creating a group on feature activation

Aptiva Dave

I've built a feature for our training department, which up until today has worked as intended. Today wrote some code in the feature activation that will add a new SharePoint group called 'Travel Plaza Managers' (Travel Plaza is a department within our organization that runs our gas stations). On the feature activation I first run a function called 'checkForGroup', which checks to see if the group has already been created on the site. Here is the code for that group:

''' ''' Checks to see if the group exists in the the site
'''
'''
'''
'''
Public Function checkForGroup(ByVal groupName As String, ByVal web As SPWeb) As Boolean
Dim group As SPGroup = Nothing
Try
group = web.Groups(groupName)
Catch ex As Exception

    End Try

    If Not group Is Nothing Then
        Return True
    Else
        Return False
    End If
End Function

If this function returns 'False' then I call another function called 'CreateTPManagersGroup', which runs this code:

''' ''' Creates the Travel Plaza Managers Group
'''
''' The current web
'''
Public Sub CreateTPManagersGroup(ByVal web As SPWeb)
'create the owner of the group
Dim owner As SPUser = web.SiteAdministrators("username")
Dim member As SPMember = web.SiteAdministrators("username")
'get the groups
Dim groups As SPGroupCollection = web.SiteGroups
'add the Travel Plaza Managers to the list of site groups
groups.Add("TP Managers", member, owner, "These are the current Travel Plaza Managers of the Choctaw Nation")
Dim newSPGroup As SPGroup = groups("TP Managers")
Dim role As SPRoleDefinition = web.RoleDefinitions("Read")
Dim roleAssignment As SPRoleAssignment = New SPRoleAssignment(newSPGroup)
roleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(role)
web.Update()
End Sub

So, the first time I ran this, the activation ran fine, but when I went to see if the group had been created the group name wasn't there. Figured I may have done something like not actually deploy the current version of the feature, so I did another deploy from Visual Studio and got the message saying that the group name had already been used. Did a debug on th