Excel Export - Window Disappears!?!?!

Post Author: shorepound
CA Forum: Exporting
We're running a C# .NET 1.0 Application on Win2k3 Server Standard, SP 2. We have CR 9 installed on the server. Back around the time when DST information was updated on the server, we upgraded to SP 2. We were running on SP1 before, and we could export CR to Excel without a problem. After all of the updates, when you try to export to excel, the report window just disappears?!?! Usually you get a prompt to 'Open' or 'Save' the Excel Document. Not anymore.
I have tried everything, and here is what I know:
This is not a pop up blocker issue.
We uninstalled and reinstalled CR 9 on the server, no change.
Reports that export to PDF still work like a champ.
This has been driving me crazy! I am hoping someone here can help!
Many thanks in advance.
-Nathan Arnold

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