Zapf Dingbats font doesn't work in FrameMaker 8

many of my company's standard templates use Zapf Dingbats. In Frame 8, these characters disappear. It it really possible that Adobe fixed Frame 8 so this font can't be used? Is there a workaround? Using a different font isn't a solution because of the way documents are shared and routed.
I am using Windows XP SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 6400.

I never even knew there was a Dingbat fix, as I never had a problem with the font and Frame before.
In Frame 8 all the characters disappeared. When I print to a pdf, I get an error message thusly:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: ZapfDingbats not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
Stack:
/Font
(ZapfDingbats)
false
/2
0
/F0
false
/ZapfDingbats
I get no such error message with Frame 7.
Now, I took my elderly Zapf Dingbats font and ran it through Fontographer--I didn't change a thing, I just generated a new Type 1 font. Frame 8 was happy with that one, but Frame 7 displayed some other font instead. I have no idea what the font is, it kinda looks like Arial.
Scratching head...

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