Design Master has become unreplicable

[cavscout]

This is really strange. I made a database into a design master and then created two replicas. While testing, the design master suddenly lost all it's replicable settings and my replicas cannopt sync with it. The database is still listed in the list of sync-able DB's in the replicas. I also still have the backup that Access created when I made the Design master.

Has anyone seen this before? What in the world caused this? O, the humanity!

Any information is appreciated. Surelly replication is not this unstable. For what it is worth, I am still running on Access 97.

Thanks in advance.