Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Adobe CS4

I know this is pre-release, but am hopeful anyway. I've installed CS4 onto my Windows 8 CP installation but am having problems with several programs:
Dreamweaver has a problem with 'Dreamweaver encountered problems while constructing the menus from the current menus.xml file.' and won't start.
Photoshop (both 32 and 64-bit) has a runtime error and stops working 'Adobe Photoshop CS4 has stopped working'.
Illustrator was having a problem loading plugins, but now I get nothing at all!
I think this all has something to do with permissions. When I visit c:/Users/Username/Appdata/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/ I am warned I cannot access this. I delve a little deeper with the security tab and see there is no owner, so add my machine as the owner and I can access the folder. It's empty, however. The same applies to the folders for the other programs in the suite.
Any ideas? I've reinstalled three times and it makes no difference.
Clive

mrportman - Were you able to get it running? I also want to upgrade from 7 to Windows 8 but the Windows Upgrade Assistant says CS4 is not compatible. AS it standsd now CS4 is not upgradeable to current version so would force me to pay full price of ~$2k for Web Premium - ouch!
Did you find a way to run CS4 on Win 8?
The MSft resource at link below is unhelpful, to say the least, as the tables plasters the "compatible" icon even when most user votes reveal otherwise...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/win8/CompatCenter/ProductViewerWithU pdatedFilters?TempOsid=win8&Type=Both&CurrentPage=0&TotalPages=4&SortCriteria=Relevance&Sh owCriteria=0&Compatibility=All&TextSearch=cs4&ProductName=cs4&LastRequested=5&Locale=en-us

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