Paul
No I didn't have a failed installation as such. The replication was working
fine for about 18 months then all of a sudden I started getting errors from
the merge agent after executing sp_MSfetchidentityrange saying it could not
retrieve identity range resource for the table [TABLENAME].

A post from Hilary Cotter pointed me in the direction of the
msrepl_identity_range tables, however I decided to script the publication
for backup and try removing it. So I ran sp_removedreplication (probably too
hasty on that one!) then tried to run the puplication gen script thats when
I started getting the invalid object name 'syspublications' This is where I
am at at the moment. no replication at all! I can't even remove replication
manually - documented in Q324401!

I'm really stuck! Can't go forward or back! So I thought maybe recreating
the replication system objects would help me go in at least one direction!

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Chris,
what about if you disable replication then reenable, then execute your
scripts?
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)

Thanks Paul
Thats worked!

I now have a problem when creating my scripted publication again! See later
post.

Thanks again!

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