Blinded by the lights

From time to time when I try to deploy a SharePoint project from Visual Studio 2005 I’m getting this error:

The feature name XXX* already exists in SharePoint. You need to rename the feature before solution deployment can succeed.

Solution
Whenever I get this (annoying) error I go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\ and remove the directory named XXX*. Sometimes then I need to restart Visual Studio or even log off and on again (on my Windows account).

17/102008
Sometimes restarting Visual Studio does the job.

* is the name of the module that should be deployed