Hi,
a few month ago when the discussion about "PreferredOnly" registry setting came up, I queried Google and found that many more users use this setting than one may believe - i.e. it is not exotic. Therefore, I don't think it's that great an idea to reduce the number of devices that the tests stress using that method: we'll get less feedback from a number of real machines. OTOH, I have no solution to the vmware MIDI trouble on Francois' machines.
Regards, Jörg Höhle