On SharePoint 2007 every now and then you may have a need to delete the SSP so that you can then recreate it.

The trouble is that deleting it through the UI isn’t very reliable.  However, it is reasonably straightforward to do so using stsadm, using the following command line syntax:  stsadm -o deletessp -title “[SSP Title]” -force -deletedatabases

For example: stsadm -o deletessp -title “SSP01″ -force -deletedatabases