Can't get rid of database user name contain '

Hi All,
I can't drop a database username whose name looks like "MaryO'Connor"(without quotes) in 10.2.0.1.0 version DB, it fails and gives me error msg like:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
ORA-06512: at line 7
Can anyone give me some ideas how to get rid of such database user whose name containing small case letters or punctuation, etc.?
Notes,
- I connected as sysdba
- the command I used to drop the user is:
SQL>drop user "MaryO'Connor" cascade;
Thanks.

This is a bug with the code name "6653002" that hits 10g for which currently there is no workaround.
11g though seems to have this thing repaired.
test case :
*10g*
[oracle@dell admin]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Aug 18 01:10:40 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL>
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.4.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
SQL> create user "MaryX'Connor" identified by a default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp;
User created.
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> drop user "MaryX'Connor";
drop user "MaryX'Connor"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
ORA-06512: at line 7
SQL>*11g*
[oracle@g5 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Tue Aug 18 01:24:42 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
CORE 11.1.0.6.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> create user "MaryX'Connor" identified by a default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp;
User created.
SQL>
SQL> drop user "MaryX'Connor";
User dropped.
SQL>

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