Unable to connect to VMWare ESXi virtual machines

Hi -

I have some virtual machines hosted on an ESXi server that I can't seem to remote control with Remote Desktop Manager. I have a completely clean Windows 7 VM I reproduced my issue with, and the following are the steps I took:
1. Create new VMWare Remote Console session
a. Set the Name to Test1.
b. Set the Server IP/DNS to the IP of my ESXi server.
c. Set the logon information to match what I use to logon to the locally installed vSphere client.
d. Set the .vmx filename to the name of .vmx file matching the VM I'm trying to remote into.
e. Click OK to save the session settings.
2. I try to open session, and I get a box that comes up asking me to clarify the path of the Vsphere Infrastructure Client Installation (Remote Console).
3. I cancel out of that, and access the vSphere web client hosted on my vCenter server from Internet Explorer.
4. At the logon screen, I click the link at bottom left of screen Download the Client Integration Plug-In, and run that install.
5. I go back to Remote Desktop Manager and try connecting to my session, and this time it errors, saying VMWare Player is not installed properly on this system and cannot function. Please reinstall VMWare Player.
6. I go out to VMWare's website and download VMWare Player 4.0.6, install it, and reboot.
7. I still get the "VMWare Player is not installed properly...." error when connecting to my session in Remote Desktop Manager.

Is there a trick to connecting to the console of my VMs?

Thanks in advance for any advice....