Crystal Reports Report Bursting

Hi,
I am trying to burst a report using one of the fields in the report. No user profiles etc is needed as I simply need data to be divided into separate files. I did set all the properties as set in another similar post..difference being my report has 2 input date parameters.
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1846515
the publication is running successfully, but I always end up having all the data in single report.
What is being missed?
Please adivse.
Thanks in advance.
Anuradha Agrawal

Thanks for your reply Mani,
The issue is corrected
It was because I was using the same report in Source Document and in Dynamic Recipients to select identifier to burst report.
That was causing all the data to be pulled into a single report.
As correctly adviced I created another report to get the list of unique identifiers. I selected this report in Dynamic recipients and in Personalisation > Filters.
Now the data is correctly split into separate files.
But along with the split files the publication also generates additional report with all the data in it.
is it always the case?
Thanks again.
A

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