hsqldb file mode with spring, db not created

Question

I'm trying to use hsqldb in file mode with spring and hibernate, but the the database is not being initialized and i'm getting the following error message:

2015-03-12 23:58:35,542 FATAL [hsqldb.db.HSQLDB4C0FFF0D08.ENGINE]: could not reopen database
org.hsqldb.HsqlException: Database lock acquisition failure: lockFile:     org.hsqldb.persist.LockFile@6602b8e7[file =C:\User\db".lck, exists=false, locked=false, valid=false, ] method: openRAF reason: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\User\db".lck (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)

My spring configuration is as following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-4.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.1.xsd">

<tx:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="org.oss.orm" />
<bean
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="location">
        <value>db.properties</value>
    </property>
</bean>

<!-- data source -->
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCPDataSource">
    <property name="driverClass" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
    <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${jdbc.url}" />
    <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
    <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
    <property name="partitionCount" value="3" />
    <property name="acquireIncrement" value="10" />
    <property name="maxConnectionsPerPartition" value="60" />
    <property name="minConnectionsPerPartition" value="20" />
</bean>

<jdbc:initialize-database data-source="dataSource">
    <jdbc:script location="classpath:scripts/create-table-if-not-exists" />
</jdbc:initialize-database>

<!-- Session Factory -->
<bean id="sessionFactory" name="sessionFactory"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"></property>
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.oss.beans"></property>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <!-- Create Tables if does not exist -->
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    <property name="annotatedClasses">
        <list>
            <value>org.oss.beans.Property</value>
            <value>org.oss.beans.PropertyImage</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"
    p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory">
</bean>

With the seperate properties file:

jdbc.driverClassName=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
jdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:#{systemProperties['user.home']}\\db"
jdbc.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
jdbc.username=sa
jdbc.password=

What changes needs to be made for the db to be initialized?