We recently announced the "Release To Web" version of VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects.  For details and the download location, see here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/01/25/announcing-rtw-of-visual-studio-2008-web-deployment-projects-wdp.aspx

A BIG thanks to everyone who participated in the December CTP release, and please be sure to uninstall any previous versions of WDP 2008 before you try the RTW install.  You can still keep WDP 2005 on your machines.

-Alison