Replication Isues After Upgrading Subscriber To 2005

Hi There

A while ago i migrated a 2000 database to a new instance of sql server 2005 and succesffully setup replication from a 2000 publisher.

However to experiment i took an existing 2000 instance with a subscriber databases and upgraded the default instance to 2005. (Upgraded from 2000 Enterprise to 2005 Enterprise)

After the upgrade the setup logs were all successful, i also run upgrade advisor before and made sure there were no issues.

To see what happens i did not drop the subscription before upgrade (is this an absolute neccessity ?)

All i did was stop the distribution agent before upgrade, to see what would happen, i did not expect it to work.

But since the upgrade i cannot delete the subscription on the subscriber after upgrade, i also cannot create a new subscriptions on the upgraded subscriber.

I get the following error:

Sql Server error 207: column job_step_uid not found.

I found the following link :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914781/en-us

but it only refers to desktop editions and express, they refer to the msdb database not upgrading, but the upgrades logs are clear i see no evidence of an issue when upgrading msdb.

What exactly is going on? How can i delete the old subsciption and start creating new ones in the upgraded subscriber ?

I have read the Upgrading replicated DB's topic in BOL, no mention of having to drop subscription before upgrade although i suspect so, all it mentions scripting out the replication , changing the scripts , dropping the subscription (no mention of before or after upgrade), and re-creating them. (all of these i am unable to do due to the above error.)

Please assist, thanx