Zip and delete folder

I would like to programatically zip a folder then delete the folder. I can successfully zip the folder using the OpenG zip tools, but when i try to delete it in the same VI i get an error 6. This sparked me to use the NI zip tools, but this causes the same problem when i try to delete the folder. The funny thing is that I can manually delete the folder after the zipping VI has stopped execution. This made me think that the execution of the zipping VI has to be finished before the delete primitative is called. I then added some code to launch a separate VI with the VI.Run method that does the deleting. This method does not work either.
Does anybody have any idea on how to delete a folder after it has been zipped? I'm thinking of investigating other zipping softwares that have a command line interface but I figure I'd ask here too.

I am using LabVIEW 7.1 so that input doesn't exist, but the folders are not empty when I try to delete them. I'll attach the code I have and a test folder. Notice how it archives the contents of the test folder based on the first word of the text files.
Attachments:
Archive Files.zip ‏30 KB
Test Folder.zip ‏4 KB

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