I will do a fresh install in Fusion of ESXi now following your instructions. Just one thing. The line, smc.present = "TRUE". Should I add this to the .vms file before I start installing ESXi? Or does it not matter?
By the way I will be using an ISO downloaded from the VMware web site, build number 838463, file name of VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201210001-838463.x86_64.iso.