This issue only observed with IE8, Firefox did not exhibit these problems.
What is occurring for example is that when selecting the Administration then click Licenses, the page momentarily displays then disappears. If you then click the Action panel, the Licenses page then redisplays and remains.
This occurs on any of the Administration dashboards. Navigating down the Administration to Manage Rules, the same scenario. Page flashes the contents then disappears. Select the Action panel and the page reappears. Then if one selects one of the rule tabs (ie. Schedules) it flashes and disappears. Action panel access makes the page reappear. Now if one selects the F5 or clicks the refresh icon it reverts back to the Manage Rules main page.
We did not observe these problems with the Hosts dasbhoard or drilldowns, Oracle dashboard or drilldowns.
What we DID find that when using IE8 on the FMS and entering http://localhost:8080, the browser worked properly and did not exhibit the problem. So the problem only manifests itself when using the hostname of the FMS in the browser URL.