(I went through that awful forum registration 6 times just now, going in circles, until I finally guessed that I had to change the settings at the very bottom to include a forum name; what a terrible process that was...)
vmware workstation 5.5.3 build-34685
Bug in the manage network settings
If you run the manage network settings, it will ignore all your changes.
There is at least one page -- the DHCP settings -- where after you change anything, it displays a message telling you to push the (nonexistent) "Apply" button.
This is the clue to what is the real bug here.
There is an invisible, or hidden, or nonexistent "Apply" button.
To find it, you have to close vmware workstation, log out, log back in as a local admin, and then run it again (or use "RunAs" to invoke it as an admin).
Only then will it actually show the secret "Apply" button.
Possibly they didn't test the dialogs for normal users. They appear to work, except that they don't actually work at all (all your changes seem to be thrown away), and there is that clue that it references a non-existent button.
