Good one Steve, I clicked the 1 and was about to submit when my eyes landed on the 500 and the light bulb clicked on..... 500 > 200 and...

No, didn't use the Keep_Replication switch, we actually just restored a database that was backed up prior to the replication being turned on.

I scripted it when I originally created it,...

No, the original published database was corrupt and could not be restored from backup.  So the publications for that db are still there.

At some point we restored an out...

I've tried "tricking" it like that, but when I de-select it in EM, it still does not drop the 2 subscriptions that are showing in repl monitor.

If I try to...