I must've missed this when you originally posted it. I have not seen the behaviour. But it suggests that there remain entries in the XMETA database (unified metadata repository for Information Server) that refer to these projects. How did you attempt to delete the projects in the first place, and we...
Different INSERT statements have different columns into which they insert. And you do have to execute the COMPILE.DICT statement as well as the INSERT statements. Note that this is not SQL, so does not take a terminating semi-colon. And all the commands are case-sensitive. You can copy/paste them in...
There's a section at the end of Chapter 2 of the Parallel Job Developer's Guide that lists the restrictions on using server shared containers in parallel jobs. I can't check right now, but I seem to recall that one of them is that the server shared container must have an input and an output.
I would recommend writing a job sequence that uses a Wait For File activity, and starts a copy of itself with a different invocation ID before finishing. Provide an alternate mechanism for notifying it to shut down gracefully.
Note that if what you want is a list of the activities actually executed, rather than the activities in the job sequence design, a radically different approach is needed. Since you have marked the thread as Resolved, I will assume that this is not what you wanted in this case.