Thanks Darius. Will do.
I have a Wacom tablet as well, but it is almost always disconnected when working on my VWMare Dev box.
Oddly, when I am doing sketching on the Windows 8 guest I have both the tablet & mouse attached and it works flawlessly with grab/ungrab.
I'll do the boot/bounce/log trick next run on the CentOS 6 dev. Probably tomorrow.
Thanks again,
Lance