Photos of the cracks/wood would help in understanding the issue.
Sometimes, cracks can easily be repaired, if necessary with reinforcements on the interior side of the wood. Not all CA glue is of the same quality/effectiveness. Depending on the crack, I'd use wood glue (e.g. Titebond).
Factors to consider in choosing whether to scrap or repair include what you paid for the wood, the quality of the wood, how rare is that particular piece, the environmental controls during the building process - you are paying attention to the humidity levels during building, right? - and so on.
Noted archtop guitar maker Benedetto, during his making of an instructional video series, broke one of his sides during bending. In the video, he simply glued the crack and carried on. His instruments, at the time, started at about $18k. I'd have scrapped the side, but he didn't. No doubt it came out okay. Yours might also.
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