Thanks nielse, I was hoping that someone in the VMWare community could help. Googling this problem shows up a number of others having a similar problem but no solutions 
a_nut_in, no the new client did not help. The same client version build is on the other machine and I can work successfully from there. Strange problem. But as I use my laptop more often I desperately need it working probably on here. I have no idea how to even troubleshoot this issue. Is there anything, anything I can try?