Getting frustrated trying to get a password in vMA 5.5.0.0-1387931

I'm trying to set up vMA to get the APC Network Shutdown installed, and I'm really getting annoyed here.

I'm on a danish keyboard, so I'm trying to do it as simple as possible, to elimitate problems with keyboard mapping.

So after booting the vMA, setting the IP, it prompts me for a password for the va-admin user.

First I enter vmware for the old password, and then I enter Qazx1234! (as ! is mapped the same way on the 1 key on english and danish keyboard).

It accepts the password and boots up.

Then at the blue window, I press enter to login, gives it 'va-admin' as username and Qazx1234! as password, and it fails every time.

I've tried all sorts of tricks, like entering keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "2000000" in the vmx, but that didn't help.

I can't authenticate through the webinterface either.

How hard can it be? And why does vmware care what password we use anyways, its up to US to handle security, not them.