VMware Fusion Help

I recently bought my first Imac.  Being new to mac from PC I installed VMware fusion on my mac and when I tried to install the windows XP professional from the disc that I have I got an error message.  I tried it a couple of times and I thought that I finally got it to work when I got the dreaded PC blue screen of death. The error message was typical PC "error occured and windows had to shut down......" Now when I go to open VMware fusion all I get is this FULL screen of the blue screen of death, this is the "snapshot" I presume from the fusion software, but how do I get out of that screen and get back to being able to operate fusion - or can I? There is no tool bar or anything just an entire computer screen of the blue screen of death and I can't esc. out of it or anything. 
I really need to get my PC programs to run on my mac.  So sick of PC but unfortunetly some of the programs I have for my design business only run on PC.  HELP!!! I need to get back up and running so I can get some work done and I can't even get my fusion software to escape out of the blue screen. So sick of the PC screen of death.
Jill

This is a question that would be better addressed in VMWare's own forums:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion?view=discussions
Regards.

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