Anyone with VMWare experience?

No. I'm running Windows XP SP3 as the guest machine.

Hm. So the issue can be my hardware even if my resources aren't being maxed out? I allocated 1.5 GB of RAM to the guest and a single core. Is a single 2.6GHz not powerful enough to run it smoothly?

give the allocate 512 to 1Gig for the VM. Set resolution to 800x600, though I think it would change to that by itself once you start maple in full screen. Running maple in windowed always max out one of my cores, might be because of aero, idk.