VMware/VMware Express and SuSE 7.2 ?

Greetings fellow VMware/SuSE users- I have a license for VMware Express and have a stock version of SuSE with the 2.4.4 kernel. I'm needing help with what path to get VMware Express to work under SuSE 7.2 and keep sound, etc., working on the Linux side ? Is it recompiling as http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mwalter_vmware_72.html says to do ? Or http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mwalter_express_72.html ? I thought the 2.2.19 kernel had security issues ? Appreciate the feedback. /Dee