In the interests of full disclosure I should probably say that I tried it and it worked. It was the strength of the feeling that just because we could, it didn't mean we should, that caused the cold feet. Tinkering with the Catalog is not widely recommended.
I can't shake the sense that doing it is one of the reasons why we can't preview things in Report Builder any more.
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