hi wil,
thanks for taking the time to reply 
i had already clicked on "Receive email notifications for this thread". i have received exactly 0 emails from this bulletin board system. i have my email address in my profile here set to an address i only use here and a search in the gmail account to goes to "in:all" turns up nothing. do you know anyone that could get me closer to an admin for this system so they can investigate?
i don't think you're seeing the same problem i'm seeing. when my problem arises (which is quite often), just switching back to the non-VMware app i had just switched out of and switching back to my VM is enough to get the clipboard contents to sync. it appears i'm losing some race somewhere.
cheers,
marc