Deleting a topic from within Project Manager = failure

I searched for this topic here and in RH7's help and didn't
see anything, so I ask:
What could prevent a topic from deleting from the Project
Manager?
There's a topic I want to delete. The ever-ugly RH help says
only: "Use the Project Manager pod to remove topics and files from
your project." Awesome.
When I right-click on a topic and select delete, I'm prompted
by a dialog box to acknowledge that the file will be removed from
my HD. Alright, do it. It then asks me to check it out from version
control. I do, and that's the end of it. The topic remains and it's
checked out, but I cannot delete it. Repeated attempts to delete it
either ask me to check it out again or there are no prompts at all
after the aforementioned "removed from disk" dialog.
I've tried closing and re-opening the project and closing and
re-starting RH7 and this problem was extant before and after the
7.01 update.

I am having a similar problem. Check your profile in
RoboSourceControl. To delete a topic, you have to have the ability
to Hide and Unhide, as well as Delete.
If this works, please post back, because we are getting some
uneven results here. Some of us can delete and some can't. It does
seem to be an issue with the profile you are using in source
control, though.
Elisa

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