If all your VMWare Server hosted images' networks suddenly become unable to bridge....

....then go into network host settings and disable all inappropriate networks (e.g. Hamachi, etc) from being used for bridging!

Having installed a USB-Skype cordless phone for the office yesterday we suddenly had a shed-load of IP address conflicts from the image servers on the network. Since, we had recently had some other trouble with the routers (for some bizarre reasons we have a chain of them!) I spent most of the time going through all their settings (which actually also turned up a few problems that were then solved) but unfortunately only succeeded in increasing my frustration with the ongoing issue at hand. Arrggghhhh!

However, after a good night's sleep my googl'ing powers were refreshed and I found this hint which led me rapidly to the solution. :-) I'm slowing down in my old age, I tell ya.