If you are having trouble getting vmware server installed, you will need to install the vmware-anyany109 patch, which you can get here:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any...date109.tar.gz

extract it and run the update script runme.pl, then run the vmware-config script and you should be fine.

If you still have trouble, reinstall vmware by doing a sudo apt-get dpkg --purge vmware-server
Then manually delete the directory /etc/vmware, then install vmware-server again. But when it gets to the step where it asks if you want to run the configuration script, say no and apply the patch.