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@Shanghaied
Pretty much this. Lightweight makes a mind-boggling 8-spoked front wheel and that thing is significantly heavier than pretty much everything else they make, front or back, because of the massively strong rim, spoke and hub. So you probably won't be saving any weight there.
That said, no one said you have to use all of the holes on a rims: with a suitably strong (and I mean extremely strong) 36-holed rim, you can THEORETICALLY use every third hole. Any other number of holes on the rim will THEORETICALLY work too, but the then the spokes will not be evenly spaced and calculating spoke length becomes a nightmare, see http://sheldonbrown.com/mismatch/index.htm for example. And a 12-spoked wheel is going to be a real bitch and a half to true as well.
All of this is IN THEORY ONLY, I'm not saying you should actually do it.
I assume you bought the thing from sasoph? Why not ask him how he used it?