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FWIW I just figured this one out:

I made a rotating empty to act as a parent to rotate some lights in a simple animation. Only problem was I goofed and had one object that rotated along with the lights - oops! Clear parent didn't work nor would blender let me click on unlink - it gave me an error message "not right now", sheesh now that was helpful = NOT! When I checked in the outliner, I could see the the same objipo associated with the errant rotating cube.

to fix this you have to select the ipo that is driving too many things and then make a single user copy out of it. then you go to the object that you don't want linked to that ipo and you'll see that it is now linked to a new version of that objipo, eg objipo.003. then just go to that ipo and delete it and the lights will still rotate but the cube won't.

You find a variant of this same issue including the "Not right now" message with associated actions. The problem relates to the fact that the action script makes a "F" ake for the action IPOs. Removing the "F" will allow deletion....