Refreshing Database on Source Control

I've been posting quite a bit lately about my challenges with Source Control-- RoboSource. I would like to completely clear out the database, remove any links between my Project and RoboSource, and start totally over. I've tried this several times and followed some of the resources on how to remove a project from version control, but it doesn't seem to really 100% disconnect and when I try to reconnect to version control it seems to reconnect to the previous database (even if I delete everything in the database) and; therefore I'm still having the same issues. Everything I try seems to only gunk things up even more, make things run more slowly, etc. I asked my IT department to clear out the database and they said this was a version control issue. How should I go about a new start? I'm looking forward to becoming a source control guru and helping others as I've recieved so much feedback and help.
Thanks,
Sleepless over Source Control

I'm hoping that I've figured it out. I noticed that even though I had deleted the files from the Root Node ($) the files weren't being deleted from the Raw Root (*). Not that I really fully understand what it means, I think I've successfully cleaned out the Database! I'm slowly becoming more comfortable with source control, but I still am struggling with one basic concept and I've seen it discussed on other threads-- this has to do with the C:drive and Shared drives.
If add the project to source control from a location on my C drive, then open the project via source control onto my coworkers c:drive (all of the files are then copied to working folder on the c drive), are all of the topics copied to source control and therefore do not need an additional copy of the the project on a shared drive? I'm not sure if that makes sense.

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