Sorry about the late reply. Got pulled out of the office late last night.
did at one time while in the Office was a VM able to use DHCP over WiFi while Bridged?
Yes. For about a year when running Workstation 8 and about a month after upgrading to WS9.
If yes what exactly changed between the time it worked and didn't?
Had been running WS9 for a month or more. While out of the office, I added another virtual network (vmnet2) with the intent of keeping the guest on the wifi network only:
I then changed the guest settings to connect to vmnet2.
This worked fine in the field. It seems after this I ran in to issues with bridging / DHCP.
I've gone back to what I thought were original settings by deleting vmnet2 in the host and returning to a bridged connection in the guest. (I actually deleted the network adapters in the guest and added one back thinking that might wipe out any odd settings I may have inadvertently changed.)
Really grateful for your insight WoodyZ. Thanks much.