The following article will provide recently found issues discovered when planning a system seperation using Merge Replication using Microsoft SQL 2000 Database Server. These issues (or pitfalls) were discovered first-hand in a real world environment at the company I work for when we were doing a monthly release of our in-house software, while getting ready for a complete System Seperation using Merge Replication. The resolutions offered in this article have been tested and are known to work.