I no longer need an answer to this question. I wiped out CentOS 6.2 and installed CentOS 6.4
I encounted a similar problem in that the system gracefully crashed after running VMware. The solution to that problem was found on the Scientific Linux site and was
# mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all