Changes in Vertical Lines Across Hidden Sections

I have quite a few reports designed in CR 8.5 primarily by someone else but modified by me over the years. The original programmer created two page footers. PFa is to print when there are multiple pages except on the last page (set to underlay sections), and PFb to print only on the last page or first page if there is only one page. The report in this example is an invoice that could be multiple pages or one page. PFa will show Continued.... as part of the footer on all but the last page. The last page will show the total.
The original design has vertical lines extending from the page header to a horizontal line in PFb. For a one-page report, this works just fine.
When printing multiple page reports, there is a little section that does not have a line in PFa. So it has been filled in with a second line over the previous line and it extends from the top of PFa to the horizontal line in that section. This also works fine in CR8.5. This worked fine in CR XIR2 as well.
I am creating a new viewer that I would like to support current versions of Crystal. So recently I installed the CR for VS ver 9. Now my CRXIR2 and CR2011 standalone programs show lines extending to the bottom of the page over PFa on a multipage invoice. PFb shows properly on the last page.
I am pretty sure when I was using CR for VS version 4 it did not do this (last week), but I cannot remember if I had tested a multipage invoice at that time. Now that I have upgraded it appears the handling of the lines is different. I am testing the reports and they are all showing up differently now. The image attached shows the idea. The vertical lines should stop at the top horizontal line except for the one on the right which should stop at the bottom horizontal line.
I know there are other and probably better ways to program this but I inherited this stuff and am trying to find a way to not edit all the possible reports that have this problem (could be hundreds). Does anyone know if this is an intended design change or if there is a workaround I can use? My viewer is being programming in VB 2010 but the image attached is just from CR 2011 (CRXIR2 does the same thing now). The second image attached is the original from CR8.5 which still works because I assume, it is using a different print engine before the change in CR version 9.
Any help is appreciated. TIA, rasinc

Hi Jamie,
Sorry for the delayed response but I have been out of the office since Wed.
Are you saying that I just need to change the programming of the lines in the CR designer? If so, I had already done that in the same manner as you had suggested before. eg. don't let the lines cross a section. Terminate the line at the first section (pfa), then fill it in after, in the lower section (pfb).
If that is what you meant, I have done that with one to prove it is a solution. This will work for me directly, however, the viewer will be distributed to people who may or may not be buying the CR program. For those who buy it, they can modify their forms as they please if it is a problem for them.
However, there will be many people continuing to use the CR 8.5 forms in this newer viewer. These people may have to have this problem fixed and may not know it can be redesigned. So I am trying to be proactive to figure out if I can solve it with my programming but it looks like it is a difference as part of the CR viewer dlls between CR8.5 and CR2011.
If you think it is still something that can be adjusted in my programming somehow, I can give you a screenshot but I am thinking your thought was to change the line programming with the designer. If so, I know how to do this, but I have never seen and do not have access to many rpts that will be affected.
Thanks again for the help, I appreciate it. rasinc

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