it's put up by our infrastructure folks, so I am not quite sure --- Enterprise Mgr shows properties either as 8.00.2039 (SP4) or 8.00.194 (RTM); to my knowledge, no hotfixes are...
With a naked MSDE version 8.0 (also with 7.0) installation, it always worked fine with me, just to declare a stupid maintenance plan first, then refer the jobs to it: