s_osborne2 (4/23/2013)
Depending on the size of the database you may well be able to get it restored on a SQL2008R2 express edition. That's limited to 10GB sized DB's though.
That's a decent shout, but I think I'd prefer to get the dev server upgraded so that it's running at least the same version of SQL 2008 as the live server, to avoid this happening again in the future.