Hi! I have a similar problem, the \frenchbsetup{StandardItemLabels=true} in the preamble solves the issue with the dashes instead of bullets, BUT the spacing between the lines of this list and between the preceeding and the following paragraph is too small.
So in short, if I change the language from English to French, my bulletpoints are replaced by dashes and the spacing of the list is reduced to single spacing. Any ideas how to solve this issue? I'm running Lyx 1.6.7 under XPSP2. Thanks in advance! Laurenz