After reading all your comments on this issue, I decided to give it a try and check what happened if I didn't run PES2008 with my gamepad!
The result was that the game couldn't load my previous settings!
For some odd reason, not playing with a gamepad ends up "confusing" PES2008 saves!
But, this problem also happens when you always play with a gamepad!
I've tried several times to set the in-game language to english and always ended up with the first language I selected when I installed the game (portuguese)!
So, I installed the game again only in english!
How good can this game be if almost every one of us have to come up with some kind of method to bypass every single bug of this game?
These kind of serious programming mistakes are not to be made by a company that is supposed to be one of the world leaders in gaming!
And I should say, if we are expecting a patch to correct all of this game's bugs, we can forget it!
If Konami couldn't make the game perfect in one year, they aren't going to do it in just 1/2 weaks!
Very disapointing...
It's up to us common users to deal with the bugs!