Scheduling of Crystal report or allowing user to refresh

I am the only person in my organization that has Crystal Reports. Normally I just develop and run the reports for my users. I have a report I have developed that one of my users needs to be able to refresh and update the parameters. I am trying to come up with the simplest, least expensive way to make this possible. It is my understanding that Crystal Reports Viewer will only let him look at the report, not refresh it, unless I have Crystal Reports server. I saw some other products on the Internet that say they would provide the capability I need, but are pretty expensive. The only other option I can think of is getting his own copy of Crystal, save my report definition onto a folder on our server, and just let him run it with his own desktop copy of Crystal.  Anyone have any better ideas?  Thanks.

Please re-post if this is still an issue to the Business Objects Forum or if you have a valid support contract create a case on line.
You can set the option for the users not to be able to hit the refresh button or export to any format will also not give them the option to refresh

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