True. But considering I have a Roman nose, it's probably hereditary. 
Yes, the 7B is generally a drive driver issue. I guess I'm just spoiled, wanting a perfect migration, especially considering the others went so seamlessly...including our 2003 Terminal Server. I thought, for sure, that one would blow-up but, I killed the services, ran P2V and, bada-bing, there it was.
I can also try doing individual drive clones, on the 98% SBS server, and then simply join the two back together, after the fact - that might work. I'm suspecting I'll have better success this weekend. My only other remaining issue is that bloody physical parallel port output\mapping that ESXi 5.x seems to no longer support (http://communities.vmware.com/message/2193057#2193057). I don't suppose you'd care to chime in on that one? 