Upgrade VMWare FC8->FC9, no Kbd, Left Mouse Button

[jcarter]

Upgraded FC8 to FC9 running in VMWare. The install went fine, and it boots to text mode fine. startx results in the normal looking desktop, but there is no response to keys or left mouse button. Right mouse button brings up context menus, but key presses have no effect.

xorg.conf:
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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "VMMouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "VMMouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[jcarter]

A later 'yum update' trashed the GRUB boot configuration, so I gave up and ended up rolling back to Fedora 8.

The symptoms are the same as the first message in http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=188253 .

Now i've got another problem: Rebooting my system Grub seems to be not loading the kernel. All what i got were the letters

"GRUB"

This is as though GRUB began signing on, but hung. No keys were accepted. I didn't find the other message until later (it's difficult to search for error conditions containing only the single word GRUB). It seems to have been solved later -

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=188267

I had gotten as far as "Create new Bootloader Configuration" from the rescue DVD boot, but this did not solve my problem.