Protected variants in sq00

In sq00 we have a number or queries created by one of our consultants who no longer is working for us. The problem with this is that all of the variants that she created are protected. I found a similiar post and have tried the following things to unlock the variants. (see below-solution 1 and 2) Is there anything else I can try? It won't even let me delete the variants so that I can create new ones (note: these queries are created in development and moved to QA and Prod- the end user is not supposed to be allowed to change the query in Prod). Also... I notice every variant I create also defaults as protected. Is there anyway to change this?
Solution 1:
If a user has been deleted, and there are report variants protected against changes by other users, You can use report RSVARENT to reset this protection flag, before you can maintain the variant. But be careful, the Select-Options do not require any input, and there is no Authority check, so You could accidently reset the protection flags of all.
check the same in table VARID for protected flag value
u can delete the variants based on the uname of this table
Answer 2:
it seems that the user is stil being maintained...take assistance from the basis team, login with his username and pwd and reset the protection flag..have this as a final option
When I try answer 2 the box becomes checked again...even if I save it.
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