Hiding users from Global Address List in Exchange 2010

I am attempting to hide users no longer in our company from our GAL.  I have been trying to do this through Active Directory.  I verified the 'hide from Exchange address list' in AD is checked for these users, but they still shows up.  On
my own PC I deleted the *.oab files and downloaded the offline address book again, but it still shows.  I also checked OWA and they show in there as well.
Is there anywhere else that would hold these?  I have searched but could not find much related to this.  We are running Exchange 2010 SP1.
Any help would be appreciated.

How to Hide Users From GAL
http://pdtechguru.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/how-to-hide-users-from-gal/

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