Application association duplicated

We have seen the following, has anyone seen this on explain it. I
create an application, eventually I go to the association tab and in
this case I associate a container. This way all the users in the
container get the app. Later I went back into the application and
deleted the association. I found users still were getting the package.
Eventually I went to the container object and under zenworks I went the
the application tab and found the application here. So when I
disassociated the container in the application object, the application
was still associated in the container object. THing is I never and
checnked with other people, nobody ever went into the container object
and associated the application. Once I removed the application from the
container object things were fine. Can anyone explain this.
thanx
steve

[email protected],
>Eventually I went to the container object and under zenworks I went the
>the application tab and found the application here. So when I
>disassociated the container in the application object, the application was
>still associated in the container object.
It sounds that you are having DS issues. I would start with using dsbrowse
and verifying that all servers that contain a copy of the replica that the
application exists in are showing that the association is being removed.
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> hundreds of applications on the school system, and a large number of
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