Remove Exchange 2007 from AD (manually)

In the lab I had Exchange 2007 running and someone pulled my VM. It's not the end of the world because I'm done with what I was doing in 2007 however I've got other things running in the lab and I'd rather not rebuild the domain.
Does anyone know what the process would be to clean up AD (remove the Exchange org) without having the Exchange server to do an uninstall on? Can I Install the Exchange admin console on another box and than remove the mail attributes from the accounts that has them and just remove the Exchange Systems Object container in AD or is there more?
Erik

I did run into one problem while trying to install RTM:
Organization Preparation
Failed
Error:
The well-known object entry B:32:A7D2016C83F003458132789EEB127B84:CN=Exchange Servers\0ADEL:e60b372e-cd97-4fc2-bc8f-907728f0bc8d,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=domain,DC=com of the otherWellKnownObjects attribute on container object CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com
points to an invalid DN or a deleted object. Please remove the entry and rerun the task.
I was able to resolve the issue by launching adsiedit.msc (part of the support tools) and going to the Configuration partion and bringng up the properties for Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com
I edited the "othereWellKnownObjects" attribute to be "not set" (which it should be) by leaving it blank and clicking "add" (adding nothing) than applying the changes and re-running setup.
Kudos to this thread for the fix:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=839779&SiteID=17
Cheers,
Erik
otherWellKnownObjects is a multi-valued object. You need to remove the bad value, NOT ALL OF THEM!!
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