When Header Image Won't "Remove"

When the blog header you decided you don't like after all won't let itself be removed, what are you supposed to do? People say their photo is stuck there and won't be removed! I believe them, but I've barely had it happen to me, so my experience has been of small proportions!

What did I do? I panicked, of course. WHAT was it doing? So I tried everything that I ever heard of.

NO SUCCESS AT THIS:

1. I hit "Escape".
   
2. I cleared the cache and cookies.
   
3. Put the cursor over the window for the image and alternately clicked "Home" and "End" a few times. (This didn't work, although in the past, it DID WORK, turning out to be the odd solution to a newly-added header url that wouldn't go ahead and appear as an image in the same "Configure Header" Gadget. If the url doesn't change to an image in that small window, it usually means that the url had not actually "taken".)
   
4. I closed the Gadget and then reopened it.
   
5. I logged out of Blogger and logged back in.
   
6. I restarted or changed the browser (or both).
   

I did break it loose at last, but not before I'd gotten so flustered that I very unscientifically lost track of the order in which I did all these things. I can't even guess which one really "fixed" it. I nearly feel that it just gave up when it saw how hard I was going to work at it! (You can see how insensible it made me!!!)

SUCCESS!

The thing that has always occurred to me is this, though I only just now tested it. It seems to work. Why can't we just "Remove" the Header entirely if the header image stays stuck? Remove it, then add it back with "Add a Gadget" just like we do when some glitch kicks the "Archive" or "About Me" off the blog? This does work, although I had to "test" it without having a stuck header image.

My solution was:

IF THERE IS A "REMOVE" IN THE "CONFIGURE HEADER":

1. Click "Remove" in the lower left corner of the "Configure Header" page.
   
2. Confirm that request when you see "Are you sure?"
   
3. Go to Layout page and click "Add a gadget".
   
4. Select the "Header" type.
   
   IF THERE IS NO "REMOVE" IN "CONFIGURE HEADER":
   
   
5. Go to Layout page.
   
6. Click "Edit Html".
   
7. Click "Expand widgets".
   
8. locate the "header" widget.
   
9. If the header widget code says "maxwidgets=1", change 1 to 2. (You may want to put something extra up there some day!)
   
10. If the code says that "Locked="yes", change "yes" to "no". (This is the one that's NECESSARY. This action is what will put "Remove" in the lower left corner of the Configure Header page--otherwise, you have no icon to click!)
    
11. Return to Layout page and click "Edit" on the Header.
    
12. Click "Remove"
    
13. Confirm that request when you see "Are you sure?"
    
14. Go to Layout page and click "Add a gadget".
    
15. Select the "Header" type.
    

After either the short or the long list, I can only hope that you can finally remove the header image (replace it, too, if that's what you'd meant to do!). But this may be the problem, the "rub"--I had to test this (all 3 times) without a "stuck header! So I wish you great Good Luck and you may learn a number of new things, but I can't promise any success!