Refresh_report prompts for parameters

Following some installation problems from our installer using the .msm files to create crystal runtime info, we have switched to using the downloadable redistributable to install Crystal 2008 runtime files (SP3 & 4)
When we do this, when our code issues a refresh_report(), the report prompts for the parameters again with the original values missing.
We can see the parameters in the viewer (on the left) until we issue the refresh_report, and we have checked that the setting ReuseParameterValuesOnRefresh (or similar) is set to True.
Clients running the same version of our application change behaviour if we uninstall the .msm based version and install the downloadable redistributable.
Any suggestions (the msm based version was point blank refusing to install on certain clients (64bit W 7, but not all of them)?
Iain

We are using Visual Studio 2008 to write a C# wrapper to then interface with our actual application as a COM dll.
However, this code is working on a client where the runtime was installed using an installer which used the Crystal 2008 msm files, and isn't working where the client is installed using the re-distributable downloadable .msi files.
We can leave our app in place, and uninstall one version of the crystal runtimes, and then install the re-dist provided by SAP and the problem manifests. Re-installing the original runtime files from the msms 'fixes' this problem, but we then cannot get this to install at all on certain clients.

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Post Author: jehanzeb
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I recommend posting this to the Crystal Reports Design forum. As I read it:
When I use the proc in crystal reports (Crystal Reports 2008), it is not prompting for the parameter values if we execute
the report directly. It's prompting the values only when I do 'Verify Database' from the menu. Why is it not prompting
for values when executing directly. Am I missing anything here?
The issue is in the CR designer 1st. So it needs to be resolved there before moving on to the CR SDK in .NET.
Link to CR design forum:
SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio
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