VMWare Ubuntu host WinXP guest question

[Marc]

Okay here goes. I am using an updated 5.10 (as of now), i have
installed and got working VMWare 5.0, i created a default virtual
machine and put on it a ghost image of WinXP home. Everything works
fine installing WinXP until it runs for the first time. The first
screen comes up with teh time zone , i set this, click next, the next
screen is to set the computer's name. I enter a name and leave the
Computer Description field blank, click next, the cursor changes to an
animated hour glass and nothing happens. I have let it go for hours
and still nothing. I have rebooted the VM gotten to this same screen
and tried clicking the Skip button with the same results.

I have tried to research this and still am, but to no avail. If
someone can point me in the right direction or knows how to resolve
this issue i will be very, very appreciative.

I have wipped my HD and put Ubuntu as my primary OS because i am
loving it, but unfortunetly i also need to use some WinXP specific
progs for my business. Thus the need to get WinXP working under
VMware.

Tnaks again for any help.
--
Soon.
Marc
"The world is not ours to do with as we please. We are only borrowing
it from our children."