Changes to an existing workflow

Hi,
I have a rather major change that needs to be done on an existing and active (production) workflow. I am wondering what should be the best approach.
1) Back up a copy of the workflow in DEV and make the necessary changes to the old workflow. Transport the amended old workflow to PROD.
2) Back up a copy of the workflow in DEV and make the necessary changes to the copied workflow. Transport the amended copied workflow to PROD.
Any comments? Points will be awarded for helpful advice. Thanks.

Thanks for the advice.
Actually, I have a custom screen that's dependent on the workflow. At every step of the workflow, the user will go to the screen and fill in remarks in a field corresponding to that step. The remarks will be stored in a maintenance table. They are non-key fields.
The new requirement is to remove several steps of the workflow. This means that other than changing the workflow, I have to remove some fields from the custom screen.
If I use versioning for the workflow, it looks fine for the workflow as the correct version will be used. However, I will face problems with the screen as there can only be one version at any time.
I can think of 2 solutions.
1) Disallow the users from triggering a new run of the workflow until all active sessions are completed. After that, transport all changes (new version of workflow and screen) to PROD.
2) Create a new workflow and new screen.

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