VMWare Player Freezes on User Switching

Hello,
I'm running an AMD-64 X2 based system with 6GB RAM. Host OS is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Using VMware Player 3.0.1.
Guest OS is Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. Was originally built on an Intel based system, and complained when I switched it to an AMD system, but the image seems to run fine while it's active.
The problem I'm having is when I leave VMware Player running and somebody performs a Switch User from Windows to switch to another user profile on the same host machine. The player seems to run OK in the background, but then when I switch back to the original user and attempt to resume working with the virtual machine, the Player seems to be locked up with only a black screen where the guest OS should be visible.
The only resolution is to use Player to force Power Off the guest OS. I can then usually wait a bit, start Player, and re-boot the guest OS.
The issue seems to be related to Windows User Switching on the Host OS while running the guest OS.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks,
Tom

TallTomD > Any updates out there? Anybody else experiencing similar issues?
Count me in!
Was using an old version and refused to update for a long time because it was working fine!
Finally, I gave in to security paranoia and updated to the latest version and: BOOM!
My VM locks-up upon user swithing!
OS: MS-Vista.
CPU: AMD-X3
RAM: 4GB
Any help on this?

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2013-06-16T13:03:51.691+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.691+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmci".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.693+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.693+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vsock".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.696+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
Maybe it has something to do with the last filesystem update?
But I don't know what to do really and couldn't found anything on that.
thanks

sorry, found something now in another thread here. this fix works just fyi:
kokoko3k wrote:
Quick and dirty workaround to fully update your system
sudo pacman -Suy #update everything
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/gtkmm && cd /usr/local/lib/gtkmm
sudo wget http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/01/05/extra/os/x86_64/gtkmm-2.24.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
#sudo wget http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/01/05/extra/os/i686/gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz #The bug affects i686 too.
sudo tar -xvf ./gtkmm-2.24.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
#sudo tar -xvf ./gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz #The bug affects i686 too.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtkmm/usr/lib/ vmplayer #start it with old libraries

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