That is very possible (that the table didn't get inserted until last night).

I had checked the table owner and it is/was dbo in both places. The agent continues to fail...

Lo and behold:

I got a page last night from SQL Server indicating that this has happened again -- same table!

Invalid object name 'Table'.

(Source: MyServer (Data source); Error number: 208)

I have...

Chris,

Thanks for the response. Prior to seeing your response, I decided to try this:

dropped the subscription 

executed sp_removedbreplication on the subscriber (the theory being that perhaps there were residual items...

When you write that you 'deleted merge replication', does that mean that you deleted the subscriptions and the publications? or just the subscriptions?

It seems to me, based on the 're-appearance'...