Never mind about the photo... we've figured it out. There was a change in Redhat's Linux kernel that has broken Workstation... again. Any i686 kernel 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6 or newer will be affected, and may panic or arbitrarily misbehave when Workstation is launched. 
Hopefully one of our modules folks will be able to chime in here with a solution shortly...
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Darius