Final Cut Studio Crossgrade License Question

Our office is in the process of updating all our G5s with the FCS crossgrade and have run into a little snag. The update comes with one serial number for Studio and it is presumable that it replaces and supercedes the previous versions of FCP, DVDSP, Motion, Livetype, and Soundtrack... So far, most of the machines are doing that. However, we have a couple of machines that are still attaching themselves with the old licenses.
Is there a preference file that can be deleted or an xml tag that can be changed in order for the new Final Cut Studio installer to prompt us to enter in the new serial?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you rename /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Studio System ID that should prompt you the next time you open an application...
Patrick

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