LiveCycle Designer 8.0.1291.1.339988

I have been using this program since November, and while very intuitive and robust, I am finding it has some serious bugs. I have had repeated crashes, often while resizing tables; in fact, the tables in general cause me much grief.
Is there an update available, service pack, anything? I would like to give more information, but I can not debug the runtime errors, and it does not offer me crash analysis information.
WISHLIST: Also, it does not autorecover what I was working on, nor does it auto-save my form as I go.
Though I can go get the last temp previewed version, this is hardly a user-friendly option.

Solution: I contacted Technical Support for Adobe. They have indicated that it is a Lotus Notes 6.5.5 issue. Users of Lotus Notes (but not all users) will experience this issue.
I tested it with Outlook Express and no issues. Have not yet tested with Outlook.

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