VS 2005 Project is Broken after trying to register CR 2008 product

Question

I purchased CR 2008 last October, and of course, each time I load a project that has a report in VS 2005, I'm prompted to register the product.  Since I am dealing with another CR issue, I felt it was time that I register the product, and start a support case.
So, I opened up my VS 2005 project, and in the product registration wizard, I clicked Next.  The radio button 'I want to register Now' was checked, and I clicked Next.  This opens up IE and takes me to a registration page where I need to enter my Product Key Code.  When I do this, and click Next, I ALWAYS get a page 'Product Registration - Step 2 of 3' that says Script timed out--indicating that the page timed out.
So I basically decided to CANCEL the registration of the product.
NOW, HOWEVER, my VS 2005 PROJECT HANGS when opened!!!
I have to End the Program to close the project.  The next time I open the project, I get the following message:
"An error was encountered while opening associated documents the last time this solution was loaded.  Document load is being skipped during this solution load in order to avoid that error".
So, trying to register CR 2008 has broken my VS 2005 project.  It simply will not load all the documents in the project without hanging.  Is there a way to reset VS 2005 to avoid this issue?  I know that I reset the environment by running a program within VS 2005 a while back, but I can't remember how to do this.
Thanks in advance for all replies.
domls33

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
I finally fixed the issue described above, but it took a while.
My projects load OK now, but only after doing the following:
1)  Uninstall CR SP 2
2)  Uninstall CR SP 1
3)  Uninstall CR 2008
4)  A couple of restarts along the way
5)  Install CR 2008
6)  Install CR SP 1
7)  Install CR SP 2
8)  At this point, there were still issues, so I repeated all the steps (i.e. removed all CR programs and then once again re-installed them all).
9)  I also removed the CR SP 1 runtime which at some point, had been installed (way before step 1, above).
10)  Oh, and I also removed the Version Manager, as well.
Now, my project loads OK, EXCEPT:
I now get a message when the project loads each and every CR report in my project:
Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer
This report was created with a version of Crystal Report which is later than the version you are running.  Some features used in the report may not be supported.
OK.
This is a little alarming, but given the problems I've had the past two days with CR, I may just ignore it.  I double-checked my included references in my Project.  Interestingly, I get the following:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine .NET 12.0.2000.0
CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Framework .NET 12.0.1100.0
CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore .NET 12.0.1100.0
CrystalDecisions.ReportSource .NET 12.0.2000.0
CrystalDecisions.Shared .NET 12.0.2000.0
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms .NET 12.0.2000.0
However, I then removed all CrystalDecisions references from the project, and proceeded to add the new references by browsing for the new versions.  I verified that the versions in ...Common\4.0\managed\dotnet2\ were in fact version 12.2.0.290 which is the correct version # for SP2.  Sure enough, the file versions are correct.
But, when I then browse and add each one back into the project, the versions are once again shown AS ABOVE (i.e. 12.0.2000.0).  Very strange!
For now, I'll just live with this issue, supposing that the VS 2005 project version list is incorrect?
domls33