Best practice - Development Lifecycle in an SSRS, SharePoint and TFS environment

Hi,
We have installed our SharePoint/SSRS (in SharePoint integration mode) development environment servers and we're starting to think about the development process for moving reports to a test environment, then to a production environment. Since the RDL files contain URL's specific to the server on which it resides (URL to the data source, URL's to images in an image library, URL's to subreports, etc), I'd like get some guidance regarding how to move RDL's to the other servers.
Since we're planning to use TFS, one option is to use a build script to change the URL's in the RDL file from pointing to the Dev server to the Test server when we promote a report to test, then change the URL to the Prod server when we promote a report to production. The data source libraries and image librarys will use the same paths regardless of environment, so changing the server name in the URL should suffice. However, I don't really like the idea of changing source code (the RDL) during code promotion, but I can't really think of an alternate solution. Is there any best practice guidance or is there anyone who'd like to share how their development process works?
Thanks,
-Mike-

TFS questions go to the TFS forum where they also cover the SharePoint parts of them.
You'll find it here: (extract from the sticky post at the top of SharePoint - General on which forum to post to)
Team Foundation Server - there are several Team Foundation Server forums included in the "Visual Studio Team System" group here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vsts/
Team Foundation Server - Admin is for instance here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsadmin/threads/
and Team Foundation Server - General is here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/threads/
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