VMware Adventures: Joys of multi-networking and hassles of a broken install

I have been generally having a positive VMware experience over last 5-6 months. I have been using it to work in Ubuntu environment on my XP host laptop. One of the nice things of this setup for me is that when I am inside our corporate wired network with all kind of firewall restrictions, the vmware environment can use the guest wireless network to access my home network or external project code repositories which are not on port 80.