identity range allocation entry for Publisher not found

[Shawn]

I had a publisher to a republisher scenario going on 2005 build 9.0.4035.
once all the subscriptions were moved to the republisher I dropped the
Publisher thereby making the republisher the new and only publisher.

Issue: I need to create a new snapshot and the error I get when trying to
run the snapshot is:
The identity range allocation entry for the Publisher could not be found
in the system table MSMerge_identity_range. ensure the value for the
@identityrangemanagementoption property is "auto".

I've been researching and found a bug back that was back in sp2 and I have a
much more recent version.

any ideas?

Shawn