AWD/BI 3.2 and Crystal 2008 interaction

I am using AWD/BI 3.2, which uses Crystal 11.5 runtime libraries and developing Crystal Reports using Crystal 2008. The reports work but I have some dialog boxes that pop up that I would like to suppress. Does anyone know how to suppress the below dialog boxes?
The dialog box header is Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer. And the informational message is "This report was created with a version of Crystal Reports which is later than the version you are running. Some features used in the report may not be supported.
The second dialog box header is Verify Database. The informational message is 'The database file "tblRptCriteria" has changed. Proceeding to fix up the report!"

Hello,
I don't know what AWD is but those message boxes are due to the info they display. You can't supress them.
We always recommend you design the reports in the same version as the runtime for his reason.
The Verify is due to you having one of the Verify Database in Report Options enabled. That you can check off and save the report. Unless you did not verify the DB in which case the DB info is not the same as the report or could be the CR 2008 report is using a different DB driver than the 11.5 app is aware of.
Don

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