compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV

This happened whilst logging on after having removed vmware packages & rebooted as it is no longer working since going to Intrepid 8.10 (not checked till now - updated from Hardy 8.04 - 2 weeks ago) and I am looking to re-install vmware.
I believe I was using Vmware player 2.0.4-93058

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz.real
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz-core 1:0.7.7+git20080807-0ubuntu6
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --loose-binding core ccp
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
Stacktrace: #0 0x08055bfc in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
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