Exchange 2010 SP2 Public Folders Stubborn Replicas (OAB)

I migrated to a new server with 2010 SP3 all is working good, I am able to see all Public Folders and their contents fine. Now I need to delete this stubborn Public Folder on the older 2010 SP2 server to decommission it. But I get the dreadful 'you cannot
delete this database because it contain replicas' blah blah. Very annoying.
This is what the stats pulled up. They are not folders to me, and the new server is the default for OAB. Not sure what to do, I just want to delete this database the right way without resorting to ASIEDIT. I do not want to use that tool, read many horrible
stories of people deleted the database only to have hours of after affects where other public stores went into an inconsistent state. HELP!
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\scripts>Get-PublicFolderStatistics -server server-04
Name ItemCount
LastAccessTime
EX:/o=LMV/ou=Exchange Administrative ... 28 10/25/2014 9:20:35 PM
EX:/o=LMV/ou=first administrative group 10 10/25/2014 9:13:30
PM
OAB Version 2 28
10/25/2014 9:44:33 PM
OAB Version 4 16
10/25/2014 9:44:33 PM

Did you create replicas of these folders on the other server and remove the replicas from the server you want to uninstall? Have you configured the OAB so that it's generated on the new server?
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Lid: 18544 StoreEc: 0x469
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Identity: Default Global Address List
WARNING: The recipient "amicalolaemc.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/OAB Version 2" is invalid and couldn't be
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