You're welcome.
The whole VMware registration for their free to use / personal license is very obfuscated and not very transparent. I say this because, I saw a lot of people on other forums and others I've helped on YouTube, had had zero luck with navigating the VMware website. This is why there's frustration amongst the user base to the point of driving people to the competition.
I went back in to view my registration and, I can confirm that, I had to use another email address. I'd forgotten that I too, encountered what you've experienced with the initial email credentials being problematic.
You will have to use another email address for certain. Confirmed.
Sorry about that earlier - I completely forgot about that.
Regards,
CM
