Thank you for the hint, Yetsejamer1, I have Googled SnapVMX and found a lot about itm but not the script itself yet. I will keep looking and see if it can help me out. At this point it is more of a frustration than it is a roadblock...I have found I can usually boot the machine from the base disk just fine, but other tools I run point to some real corruption in the delta files. I don't know if this tool will treat that any differently than the vmdktools commands I ran, but it is worth a try.
Bob