I was able to install and run Corel DRAW! 8. So far, all the problems are surmountable.
Installation issues:
A bitmap covers some of the fill-in fields, so you need to know what fields to expect so you can fill them in correctly.
When choosing fonts to install, the fonts to not display correctly.
Run issues so far:
Glitches in the Open Drawing dialog box makes it hard to see the preview window.
Could not open more than one file at a time. (DRAW! complains that the second and subsequent files are in a invalid format. Opening them individually works fine.)
Changing the Page Layout resulted in a hang. (This is the most annoying problem so far. I had to rotate all the graphics and work sideways.)
Copy / Paste did not work. When I tried to paste, I got the contents of an X paste buffer. I'm not sure where the
Printing did not work. The printer started printing PostScript as text.
Because I could not print, I tried exporting to PDF. That worked.