Undistributed Commands Not Decrementing

I was pointed to this forum by one of the admins who has started doing some consulting work for us. We did a major conversion over the weekend for our main production server to SQL 2005 from SQL 2000. We have used replication to go from the live OLTP server to a few dedicated report servers for all of our reporting needs. In 2000 this was pretty well established (though a pain when we had to migrate in changes; I love the 2005 schema features for replication).

The only problem we have really encountered today, the Day After, involves replication. A few minor things involve lack of knowledge (like nonclustered indexes don't replicate by default, that was an OOPS). But one thing I haven't figured out yet.

Replication is working -- we are updating three servers, and all three servers are getting updates. I have run a validation on one of them and it passed in full. However, the "undistributed commands" count never goes down. It actually keeps going up and up. I verified that by first running this on the subscriber:




select transaction_timestamp
from MSreplication_subscriptions



And taking the results of one of the three rows that came back and executing this with it:




sp_browsereplcmds @xact_seqno_start = '0x00000231000006ED000100000001'




which brought back all of the "undistributed commands". Within that list, I looked for sp_MSins_ procedures. I found a few and looked up on the subscriber the value to be inserted -- and it existed on the subscriber. So it still is in MSrepl_commands even though it has been sent out.



I am afraid that eventually the system will "think" that the process isn't working and deactivate the subscriptions. Also this is useless as a monitor. Since this is our first major replication in 2005, I am willing to bet that we are missing something. Does anyone have any advice?