Duplicate Site Error In MOSS

Recently we had to move the content databases for MOSS. once we had sucessfylly moved the databases over, we started to see the errors(See blow) in the Applicaton log

Event ID: 7888
Task Category: Office Server General
Source: Office SharePoint Server

A runtime exception was detected. Details follow.
Message: A duplicate site ID 53e40665-62d0-4316-9192-4d65f247a9a4(http://moss) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm into a different server farm without first removing the original database and then running stsadm -o preparetomove. If this is the cause, the stsadm -o preparetomove command can be used with the -OldContentDB command line option to resolve this issue.

Techinal Details:
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileSynchronizationDuplicateSiteIDException: A duplicate site ID 53e40665-62d0-4316-9192-4d65f247a9a4(http://moss) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm into a different server farm without first removing the original database and then running stsadm -o preparetomove. If this is the cause, the stsadm -o preparetomove command can be used with the -OldContentDB command line option to resolve this issue.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ContentDBSynchronizer.RegisterSitesForSynch(Guid[] rgGuid, Int32 nGuids, Object dummy)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.SynchCollection`2.FlushAdds()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ContentDBSynchronizer.AddRemoveSites(String strFirstChangeToken, SPChangeToken lastChangeToken)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ContentDBSynchronizer.SynchContentDB()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.FirstChanceHandler.ExceptionFilter(Boolean fRethrowException, TryBlock tryBlock, FilterBlock filter, CatchBlock catchBlock, FinallyBlock finallyBlock)

This error was always followed by the error

Event ID: 5555
Task Category: User Profiles
Source: Office SharePoint Server
Failure trying to synch web application fc5dfaee-12c3-4d6f-b7a2-e028bf810f7b, ContentDB 094c5bc4-fc4b-444a-936b-5c3ee6d1d2d8 Exception message was A duplicate site ID 53e40665-62d0-4316-9192-4d65f247a9a4(http://moss) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm into a different server farm without first removing the original database and then running stsadm -o preparetomove. If this is the cause, the stsadm -o preparetomove command can be used with the -OldContentDB command line option to resolve this issue.

to resolve this error, we had to run the StsAdm command
stsadm -o sync -deleteOlddatabases 0

which resolved the error.

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