Image field in Crystal XI

Hi we are usign crystal 8.5 and we were displaying image field from the database and it works just fine..
Now we migrate to crystal XI and suprise these image field does not show anymore. The detail area where the image field should be displayed stay white and the image not show..
Why it was working fine in 8.5 and not anymore in XI?? Is there anyway to do that with crystal XI?????
Thank you
Eric

Hi. We did install Crystal XI SP2 release 6 on a fresh new computer windows 7 32 and 64 bit and still same issue. we add a .bmp into our SQL image field. We drop the field on crystal design window and it does not show any image. We do same thing with the Crystal 8.5 and it works. Do you have any idea why or how we can surely make this works
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