For those of you on the forum and in other places running into problems with Dreamweaver 8, I’d highly suggest downloading the Updater and letting us know if it resolved the bugs you encountered.
Resolved issues with Dreamweaver 8 update (8.0.1)
http://www.macromedia.com/go/f56452a8
Then after your done reading the resolved issues, go download the updater!

Works for me. Strange.
Go directly to the updater page:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html