How do I upgrade my Crystal Report libraries in a .NET 3.5 project to CR XI R2?

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Our project currently uses Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008. We need to upgrade to XI R2, but I'm having problems doing so. Here are the steps I followed:

Install Crystal Reports XI R2.
Collect updated assemblies from the GAC. I did this because I couldn't find version XI libraries in the "Add References..." dialog. I verified that these assemblies were of version 11.5.*. The libraries I gathered were:
- CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine
- CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Framework
- CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore
- CrystalDecisions.ReportSource
- CrystalDecisions.Shared
- CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms
Replace all references in my projects to version 10.5 Crystal libraries with references to the newer assemblies.

Everything builds fine, but when I try to instantiate a ReportDocument, I get this error:

The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument' threw an exception.

Is there anything I'm missing? Will this just not work?

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