There was a problem when I first loaded, and I rolled back. When I went back to see if I should just go back to .7, I started .8b and loaded my new save, and everything worked. It introduced me to the changes that it didn't before, etc...
If I remember correctly, the rollback put me to the end of an event or conversation. So maybe that prevented it from working. But it is all working now.
One more potential issue. If you have a dead/KO'd character, and a living character confused, the living character can use an HP potion on the dead one. This doesn't revive them, but does heal them. I don't know if there is any way to revive dead characters in battle, but this seems a little silly, if fixable.