Altera newbie question

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I am working on an existing project that would only require compiling the files to get the .pof file that's automatically generated to program the configuration device with it.

To start out, I downloaded the Quartus II 7.2 Web Edition, then opened the project file, which is the .qpf file. But the problem I'm facing now is everytime I opened file.qpf, I get a popped up message stating:

"do you want to overwrite the database for revision "c:/example/file.qpf" created by quartus ii version 5.1 build 216 03/06/2006 service pack 2 sj full version? the database format is incompatible with the current version of the quartus ii software. overwriting the database does not affect the design files or other source files, but removes all database files for the revision included in the project.

if a version-compatible database was created for this project then the import database dialog box can be used to import the database after the project is opened."

Is there a way to get around to that message? Because clicking on "Yes" will remove all the database files and therefore will create a different checksum, but clicking on "No" will not open the project.