woodyz, johnhc & continuum,
Thanks for trying to help me with this issue; however, I have given up on the VMware player option for running the program. As it turns out, since I first installed the player (some18 months ago) to run this program, the software developer has had an upgrade to allow me to operate the program on my 64-bit machine. So I no longer need to run on a virtual machine to use it anymore, and things are working just fine now with this uograde.
Thanks again for all your help, I really do appriciate your efforts, even though it was a bit "beyond" my technical abilities. It was gratifying to see so many people (I didn't even know) willing to help!
Thanks, Tom