Hi Monty,
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
they are from @base.
I doubt that the VMware Tools installer installs them at all. Possibly without a current version of the VMware tools the CentOS installation process doesn't recognise it runs on a VMware instance, and so the drivers don't get installed. Just a wild guess, though.
Cheers,
Peter.