[AaronR]

OK, the question is, why do you need to have both O/S backing up the Blackberry?
The Manager woks like a charm in the Mac; why do you need XP too?
VM ware makes a virtual machine within the hard drive of the Mac, but it needs permission to access the ports and facilities of he Mac - you need to make them items in common, I think.
Best to call VMWare on this if you insist on using the Mac to pass info to Windows.