Report Manager - Template Conversion Problems Excel 2003/2007

Hello,
We are having an issue in which templates created using excel 2003 are showing incorrectly formatted outputs in excel 2007. We have performed testing by creating new templates in Excel 2007 and most formatting is correct as long as we only make minimal changes to the initial template. Once the template is changed to a further extent the formatting is correct but no actual output shows, just the token defaults. Patches have been applied for both the issue of incorrect formatting caused by Excel's smartcutandpaste and also the problem with the token defaults showing instead of actual Oracle data. We would prefer not to have to recreate the templates as this would be a lengthy process. To me it seems as something was modified that affected the existing templates (other than the Generic FSG Template, which works fine), but does not affect newly created templates. Other methods of viewing the data work fine (pdf and html).
Any ideas?
References:
Patches Applied to try and fix problem: 8792030, 9020608, 86607013
Metalink Ref: 960409.1, 1082349.1, 811853.1
Thanks,
-Steve
Edited by: sanstey on Oct 15, 2010 12:08 PM

The BNE.log for the report that would not show the data (due to column deletion):
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:12 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
The same error appears on the report that works fine (one without deleting columns):
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Error trying to check whether the job will be importing.
10/20/10 3:22 PM ERROR BneAsyncUploadPage.renderPage Parameter value is not a Boolean.
The client is testing now and believes the report output is what she needs and will not need to delete the columns afterall, but for my curiosty, any ideas?
Thanks,
-Steve

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