Thanks all.
I ended up just copying the .vmdk and -flate vmdk files to a directory on the server and then created a new vm with no hard disk, copied the files into the shell directory and then added the hard disk. This seems to work pretty good. The only reason I'm not using templates is bc the VC server is not setup yet and I'm under the gun to get 5 or 6 vm's done.
Thanks all.
-JC
