I did exactly that.
It worked on the local miner but didn't work on ANY of the remote miners.
Did you update your awesomeminer remote service or anything?
Worst case stop miner, delete all software in the users / appdata / roaming / awesomeminer. the agent will then force download of 9.7 when you start. No update to remote agent with the mining definitions.
Interesting - I did that and it did indeed force a re-download but it redownloaded 9.6
I'm missing something... perhaps the link on the Awesome Miner website isn't to the latest version of the remote agent?
I'm using this link to re-download the agent:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download.aspxCheck whats on your control machine (running AM) in the Local appdata, close AM, clean out the miners in there, force update when you re-open see what it grabs.