Channels in track view and channels on notes

Recently I have been reclaiming some old Cakewalk files (.wrk files!) into Sonar 8.5 Producer, and I have to use different synths (obviously) than the ones I originally used.  Mostly what I have been doing is in track view I point a track to the right synth and then set the channel to whatever synth channel I need in the new synth.  However, the actual notes in the staff view are still pointing to the channel from the old synth.  This doesn't seem to make a difference.  It seems that everything is playing correctly.  However, I am curious to know if this will come back and bite me somewhere, like when I draw in track envelopes and such.  I wrote a CAL to change the channels of all notes and controller events in a highligted track or section, but I'm still curious as to whether it is necessary.

Thanks Randy.  I suspected as much.  But with these old .wrk files, I wasn't sure.  If I recall right I was using Cakewalk 0.0001, my monitor was a chunk of slate, and I had to chisel the notes in staff view.