Changing content repository for external archiving:

Recently my company is in the process of transitioning from one document archiving server to another. We configured a new content repository in our system, and then I used transaction OACT to change the content repository for the category of documents that I am working with.
This appeared to work well on development, old documents on the server A were still accessible, newly created documents were archiving succesfully to server B.
The problem arose when I attempted to transport my change to the QA server. It seems that when a change to a content repository field is made in transaction OACT the transports do not contain a change to that field, so I cannot change it in QA.
The following entries are created in my transport:
IMG Activity Define Content Categories
     View Maintenance: Data
         V_SDOKSTCA
             SDOKSTCAE
             SDOKSTCAT
             SDOKSTCDSP
I can change the Document Area, but the content repository field is not included in the transport. Has anyone else run into this when migrating between archving servers?

It seems that it isn't a good idea to change the content repository for this type of object once a system has gone live. I'm planning to have all of the documents previously archived migrated to the new server and once that occurs I'll edit this field directly in production...
If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know.

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