My apologies for not replying sooner!  I found, through much searching, that the issue eventually goes away if you just let Fusion sit there trying to restart a VM.  My readings said it can take from several minutes to up to 6 hours.  Mine eventually came back in about 3 hours.  Has been working fine since.

Seems no one knows why this happens and a post from a VMware employee says they can't reproduce the problem to do any kind of investigation!

Thanks to all that read this thread and offered any kind of suggestion.

John