Hi,
FYI.
I had to disable "Accelerate 3D graphics (DirectX 9.0c)" in the VM settings on several of my Vmware boxes. Winetest crashed my W2K and Vista box (ddraw:d3d) and made my Win98 box unresponsive (user32:sysparams when changing to 8bit display).
If I can find some spare time I will report this to VMware. I do however run VMware Workstation on Fedora 8 which is not officially supported.