Partitioned oracle tables

Hi all,
We have two partitioned tables, T1 and T2. T1 belongs to one user and has 8 partitions, 3 users have a table called T2 with 8 partitions. We are trying to :

1) Alter tables (T1,T2) drop all partitions
2) Take tablespaces holding the partitions offline
3) Drop tablespaces
4) drop users

Trouble is in step step 1 for table T2 where we get a)ora 144083: cannot drop the only partition of a partitioned table b)ora 14404: partitioned table contains partitions in a different tablespace

Can anyone try and explain to me the breakdown in my steps to get rid of the partitioning ?
Platform: Oracle 81700 on Tru64 Unix

Thanking you,

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