Deleting references from a plugin...

[Marxist ßastard]

I'm trying to convert an in-development plugin consisting of a single ESP file into a plugin consisting of an ESM file and an ESP file that contains all data that could possibly conflict with existing master files. To do this, I must obviously seperate the benign data from the references -- most of which are modified from existing master files and will conflict.

 

In a nutshell, what I'm trying to do is remove all references from a plugin without deleting anything else. I've tried simply marking the reference data as ignored in the CS Details view, but it seems as if reference data cannot be marked as ignored. After that, I took the steps outlined below to attempt the removal of the problem data:

• Created blank ESP in TES CS
  
• Loaded mod ESP in TES AME, then selected object (Not reference, because references are not listed) entries and exported them into an ESD file
  
• Removed aforementioned entries from the ESP and saved under a different name
  
• Merged blank ESP with the newly created ESD (The one containing all object data)
  
• Loaded merged ESP and converted it into an ESM using TES CS
  
• Ended up with a blank ESM and an ESP with both object and reference data deleted
  
• Went into CS and created a plugin with a single new reference
  
• Loaded mod in TES AME again and inserted the object data into another ESD file
  
• Merged single-reference ESP with the new ESD
  
• Attempted to load merged ESP in TES AME; got what seemed to be a memory error at the time
  
• Converted merged ESP into a master file; got invalid form error
  
• Ended up with a master file that adds a single reference
  

...It would be appreaciated if anyone can find the source of the problem (I suspect it's bad merger handling on TES AME's part, but I couldn't find any other way to export the data) or better, post a procedure that will allow me to do what I want correctly.

[Marxist ßastard]

UPDATE: My problem has been solved.