Crystal Reports XI and VB6 Deployment

Hi,
I'm new to crystal reports so please be gentle.
Due to a legacy application I need to use crystal reports with vb6 so I opted for the XI version over 2008.
So i've knocked up a quick viewer in vb6 that will pass parameters (as required) to the requested .rpt file.
Now i've got it working - what crystal files do I need to deploy my viewer ??
Is there a crystal runtime to be installed on users machines ?? and are there additional licensing cost's ??
Thanks for any and all help.
Saboteur

Thanks for the reply Don.
Unfortunately I have searched the forum and have found nothing but confilcting information and frustration.
Also, I should have been clearer in my original q, in that I'm using the 30 day trial of CR Xi and not all of the information is included in the download, specificaly the documentation refers to a vb sample folder that doesn't exist and whilst i found documentation on the rdc model, i found no info on distribution.
I'm not trying to be difficult, but it's taken me nearly two days of trawliing the internet just to get a simple viewer working in VB6 and even now I think i may be using the wrong / to many references in my code.
All i wanto to do is build a veiwer that i can enter paramters into - the reports will all be pre defined using CR Xi - but i'm not going to spend the best part of 500gbp to write reports I can't distribute.
I've managed to get the hang of the report builder in under and hour and have figured out how to do some quite complicated reports very quickly and cannot praise CR enough for it's ease of use. It's just lacking in the final furlong imho.
Cheers
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