Thanks for the tip.
I did go with my last sentence however. Parallels offered an "upgrade" from VMWare to Parallels at half the price. After having installed Parallels and run it for a while I realized that it really was an upgrade! I made the classic misstake that many people do: assuming that the larger company has the better product. The fact that I hate most software comming from IBM should have given me a clue to the wrongness of that assumption :-).
And I'm glad that I ran into this problem. I would never have conidered Parallels otherwise. It is clearly the better product. Very sorry VMWare! You need to look closer at your competitors and keep up the competition!