As an update, I booted back to the Mac and went into Win8 with VmWare and checking Win8 registration, it seems to still be activated. I'm still not sure what I did wrong or how I should fix it. I know I can call Microsoft, but if they give me a code to re-activate, how do I make sure I do it correctly?
I'm still new at VMware and I'm not sure how registry entries, etc work with win under bootcamp vs. bootcamp under VMware.
Thanks for any insight.