Migrating crystal reports XI to crystal reports 2008

Hi,
Currently we are using crystal Reports XI for our reporting.
Planning to migrate to Crystal Reports 2008.
Do we need to change all reports ,which are developed in Cr Rep XI.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Ravi

The source of the problem is the "re-import when opening" option on the sub-report - if I remove the tick, the report is saved to the repository and the program does not crash. Is this a known issue, or is there some restriction in 2008 which did not exist in XI that I am not aware of. I did download Crystal reports 2008 SP2 but I have not installed as the notes say it is not compatable with Server 2008 SP1.
I have the follow versions installed...
Crystal Reports 2008: 12.1.0.892
Crystal Server 2008: 12.1.0
CMS database is on SQL Server 10.0.2531
Tks
Garth

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