The Item record is the same for all varieties of an Item, and the cost price is a part of the item record.
Regarding the sales price, it is not possible to set different prices per variety. I suggest you to report a development wish
This is not the issue of upgrade SERP. But serverip.dat in this case contains the value: 192.168.88.12:1301, so this is local IP of the server with SERP.
Anyway I don't understand what do you me...