10.2.0.4, Spatial and invalid objects

Question

We don't use spatial. We have no plans to use spatial. We do use Intermedia, badly.
When I upgraded a database from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4, everything went OK, except that one object in the MDSYS schema (I can't remember its name, but it was something like SDO_GEOMETRY) was rendered 'invalid' in dba_objects afterwards.
I tried to manually re-compile it. It produced errors like 'table doesn't exist'. And I got to thinking that this was a Spatial object that was invalid because none of the other Spatial components was installed. I needed the invalid status to go away because my boss has a query that spots invalid objects and hassles me if any exist, and my attempts to say 'this one doesn't matter' weren't working.
So I used dbca to add Spatial to the database. (Added a tick to the spatial selector on the database options page). The addition went well, and at the end of it... zero invalid objects.
Problem solved, sort of. Now I have a new problem: when I ran dbca again to UNinstall Spatial, the tick against the Spatial option is greyed out and it cannot be de-selected and hence removed from my database.
And so my questions. How do you remove the Spatial stuff? Will removing it break Intermedia? Is there a better way to fix the 'invalid MDSYS object' problem caused by the 10.2.0.4 upgrade in the first place, because I have 8 other database to upgrade in the coming days? And, if the simplest thing to do is to just leave all the Spatial objects in the database, will we be in breach of our license, because we certainly haven't paid to use this feature, but we equally certainly have no use for it?

Answer 1

I would guess that most questions asked here could have been resolved by 'searching on Metalink first'. According to your standards and rules, then, that makes this place mostly redundant. Perhaps we should just shut the place down?
No, I'll tell you what: if you find your time being wasted, perhaps you could just not bother replying instead of pronouncing on high how those so much less exalted than yourself should behave and do things. You could have provided a metalink document number without the accompanying attitude, and then you would have my thanks and appreciation. But, for being a pompous a-s-s, you get neither.
Here's a clue. Classic Metalink. Search for '10.2.0.4 spatial errors after upgrade', All Sources. Your precious document appears only 16th in the resulting list. Yeah, I could wade through 15 irrelevant documents before stumbling over the correct one, but I figure upgrading to 10.2.0.4 can't be that rare; somebody will have encountered the problem before; quickest way to a solution is therefore probably to post here. Not, I would have thought, an entirely unreasonable train of thought, though obviously it is in your particular corner of the universe.
Besides which, whilst that document tells me how to fix the invalid objects without installing Spatial, which will certainly prove useful for all my other database upgrades, it doesn't tell me (and neither did you) how you uninstall Spatial after having installed it with dbca. That's not asking you to fill in the gaps, by the way: I wouldn't want to waste any more of your precious time.
I'm just pointing out that your "answer", as well as being pompous and arrogant, also proves itself to be deficient.