Opening Older Illustartor artwork

[Eternal Designs]

I have some older artwork I did when I was in school from 4-5 years ago. I originally created it in AI 7, and I have been trying to open it up in AI 10. It opens up fine but it has a light blue to white gradient for the sky which displays as gray bands in AI 10. Is there a way to fix this other than re-creating the gradient or installing AI 7?

[ktown]

I seriously doubt that you can easily fix this, it would probably be worth it to just re-create
unless you can install ill 7 and then export as a tiff/eps & re-import into the Ill10 file