Vic,
I went ahead and cleared the lock on that profile so the HSA is gone. This does bring up some interesting issues as we work through merging profiles. We should always try normal means to get merges completed. In other words propose to the profile owners to complete the merges. If after a reasonable amount of time we get no response and we start to conduct the merges ourselves. As Arborists we will aways work our way up from the ancestors in question to avoid creating orphans. It's tough sometimes because some owners never respond to the merge requests yet complain after the fact.