Livecycle Designer ES 8.2 Crashing When Trying to Add Elements

[msmith11950]

I've created a form and hit a roadblock.

The form is 17 pages long and contains 151 elements.

When attempting to add another element the application shows not responding and then eventually crashes.  Worse yet, it corrupts the PDF.  The byte count for the file goes from around 280KB to 0KB.  When I attempt to open the file using LC after recovering from the crash, the file is blank (obviously).

After restoring the files from tape, I attempted to work-around this issue by splitting the form into separate smaller parts and then combining the parts in Acrobat Pro, but the add more pages features is grayed out and I can combine the PDFs.

This is extremely frustrating and hugely limits my ability to create forms.

PC Specs:

Intel Xeon 1.86GHz

4GB RAM

Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit

...just in case someone says it's a machine issue. 

Here's the file:  <removed>

UPDATE **** UPDATE **** UPDATE

After speaking with one of my developers, we discovered that there is a horrible bug which loops a tag in the XML.

Here is the start of the problem:

<field name="DropDownList1" y="9.525mm" x="3.175mm" w="62mm" h="9mm">

            <ui>

               <choiceList>

                  <border>

                     <?templateDesigner StyleID aped3?>

The <?templateDesigner StyleID aped3?> tag then runs on for around 800,000 lines of code.

This apparently is a well known issue.  You can read more about the problem and the fix here:

http://acrobatusers.com/forum/forms-livecycle-designer/potential-bugs-livecycle-designer-script-edit...

I opened the file in Textpad and deleted the tag and all its brethren.

Adobe: Is there a patch for this?