Perfect. Uncommenting the "127.0.01 Localhost" AND "::1 localhost" lines from the hosts file got Wamp running on my Windows 8 machine.
I could get to the wamp server page by going to 127.0.01. So for anyone else who is adamant that Wamp isn't working, it's probably worth inserting the local IP into the browser first.
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