I finally took the plunge and loaded my TRIAL copy of Civil 3D 2008 on my home box, I lost my virtual machine a few weeks back an haven't had time to set up a new one. There IS at least some good news. It appears all of my labels translate into 2008 without the problems others are noting. Of course most of my work has been with pipe and street profiles. I have made some use of the general labeling in lieu of parcels but I don't have any of those drawings at home to see what happens. From what I see though, our only major problem will be the loss of the point group layer property and it looks like we can work around that one. :kewl:
I just wish Manchester would decide to quit improving the aec objects each year so much they are not compatible with any other version of the program. At least keep the things stable enough to last for the life of the dwg format cycle. This is in effect the same thing as having a new dwg format every year. :realmad: