Best Practice Re: Workflows and Workflow Components

Hello,
As many know, CUP does not allow you to delete workflows and workflow components if they are referenced in a request somewhere. The solution I'm seeing here on the forums is to run a Request Delete Script from SAP. This is all well and good in a Sandbox environment, but we would not like to delete request information in Productoin.
So my question is: what is best practice for managing workflows and their components in Production? As time goes on, our workflows will change, our components might change, we might need to add a stage here or there or switch an initiator, etc etc. However, if I create a new workflow or component, I can't delete the old one. So essentially there's potential to have a lot of junk workflow/component data sitting out there because it's referenced in an old request somewhere.
Does anyone have any recommendations on how to manage this? Ex: If you change a workflow to add another stage, what are you doing with the old workflow since it's useless?
Let me know if I need to clarify further.
Thanks!!
Jes

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I'm not sure deleting keys from the registry is ever a best practice, however Xcelsius has listings in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Business Objects > Xcelsius
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Business Objects > Suite 12.0 > Xcelsius
The current user folder holds temporary settings, such as how you've modified your interface.
The local machine folder holds more important information.
As always, it's recommended that you backup the registry and/or create a restore point before modifying or deleting any keys.
As for directories, the only directory Xcelsius uses is the one you install to. It also places some install logs in the temp directory, but they have no effect on the application.

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