Thank you, @hkang and @wtstephens. After much stumbling on my own and using suggestions from other threads, your info, along with another post pointing me to the VMware Tools ISO, allowed me to get Windows 7 Pro installed on Workstation Pro 17. After performing the suggested steps, I had about 5 seconds of panic, when the VMware Tools ISO didn't seem to be recognized. Then, happily, the run dialog popped up. It merely took it a few seconds to automatically start.
