I believe that your problem to this link can help you.

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2710/steps-to-clean-up-orphaned-replication-settings-in-sql-server/

Hugs.

Pete, you are creating a publication MERGE and applying a snapshot at the subscriber, right?? The problem can be solved as follows:

1. Create empty tables on the subscriber;

2. Make a...