Merge Replication question

Environment:
Merge Replication
Publisher: SQL Server Enterprise 2000, SP 4.
Subscriber: SQL Server Enterprise 2000, SP 3a
We ran into an issue when creating a subscription the other day.
When we tried to drop everything we got the folloiwng error message:
"Could not drop one or more tables because the tables are being used by
other applications"
Any ideas?
Thanks MJ
Thanks Paul;
Resolution for xrepl.dll not found
xrepl.dll issue:
The subscriber had not been properly configured and permissions had not
properly been assigned.
MJ
"Paul Ibison" wrote:

> Are you sure that this is the exact message? Never heard of it before like
> this, but there is a similar message where user tables can't be dropped as
> they are being used by replication though. What is it that you tried to drop
> exactly - pls can you tell us the steps involved?
> Rgds,
> Paul Ibison
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