Relationship cannot be created between identical business partners

Hello,
I am implementing CRM 5.0 and trying to create business partner relationships to the identical business partner. For example, I am trying to makbe BP#1 have te relationship 'Has a Contact of' to BP#1. However, I am getting the error message:
'Relationship cannot be created between identical business partners'.
(Message no. R1776)
Has anyone ever encountered this error? Is there any way to create a relationship in SAP-CRM to the same business partner?
Thanks much for your help,
Dan

Hi Daniel
In short: No, it is not possible to have a relationship "between" a BP and itself.
In long: In R/3 there are partner roles like Sold to, ship to and others. When CRM was designed the people at SAP did want to simplify a bit and implemented the following logic for partner determination: If there is no relationship of a searched type, the BP itself is taken. As a result a relationship pointing to its source is not allowed as it would duplicate the information already existing.
Hope this helps,
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