That is amazing that its working all because of 9. Perhaps AVID should make not of this because the fix to their problem lives in 9 obviously. Thank you for the share of information. You made my day/night.
I forgot to mention that during the 9 install I noticed it slow on a file called something like "Avid Family Driver.exe" or something like that, perhaps that is the file that makes it all possible for Windows 8.