in order to get rid of those references i had to publish the content node that holds the multinode tree picker, so i tried to force an auto publish on the server side whenever a content node is being deleted

        internal static void ContentService_EmptiedRecycleBin(IContentService sender, RecycleBinEventArgs e)
    {
        Document root = new Document(1227);
        PublishChildDocs(root);
    }

PublishChildDocs method uses the doc.SaveAndPublish(user) method , and doesnt throw an exception , i have checked that the method is fired with the wanted doc(content node) . but anyway , it wont get rid of the references until i make a 'save and publish' manually on the node from the web gui (to the same node)

is there any other way to save and publish content nodes via server side ?