Crystal Reports Sort Bindings

I saw a post here regarding problems with sorting and I am having what I believe is a slightly different issue (or maybe not understanding the question).
Anyway, I created a report in Crystal Reports 2008. When I did so, I added sort bindings to a couple of the document headers (document number, revision). Running the report in Crystal Report, I see a sort control (two arrows) that allow me to sort by the Document Number or the Revision.
When I tried to create a simple form in VS for this report, I used the Crystal Reports Viewer in the Reporting section of the Toolkit and selected my *.RPT file as the source. When I run the app in debug, it prompts me for the parameters for filtering (yeah!) and the database connect string, but it does not allow me to change the sorting order. The data appears and it looks great, except that I can't sort it. Any ideas how to add this?
Is there maybe an incompatibility between Crystal Reports 2008 and VS 2008? I did notice that when I tried to edit the *.RPT file from within VS, it says something about the *.RPT file being a different version, but it seems to open it properly.

Looks like you have an issue with the correct CR assemblies. The version of the CR 2008 assemblies should be 12.x. I suspect is you check this out, you'll see that your app references 10.5. To resolve this, reinstall CR 2008. Not knowing the sequence of install, it may be that CR 2008 was installed before .NET(?).
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