Upgrading Fusion 3.0 in 10.7.5 (Lion) and suspended virtual machine

I was trying to help friends get their virtual Windows XP Pro back up and running after it "hasn't been working for a while".

First, they are not able to afford upgrades of ANY kind at this point in time.  As a result, they are stuck with Lion (10.7.5) and Fusion 3.

Their Fusion is 3.0.0.  And they are having the issues presented in the knowledge base article:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2020651&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=112161147&stateId=0%200%20112066361

I assume that at some point "a while ago" they updated Lion to 10.7.5 and virtual Windows stopped working.

Clicking on "Check for Updates" within Fusion only takes them to the offer to upgrade to Fusion 6 and does not allow them to patch 3.0.0.  I have downloaded 3.1.4 (latest version) for them but am hesitant to uninstall 3.0.0/install 3.1.4 or to just install 3.1.4 over the top of 3.0.0 because the Windows XP Pro virtual machine in in the SUSPENDED state.  Because of this bug, I cannot start the virtual machine to properly shut it down!!!

So my question is, can I install 3.1.4 with the virtual machine in suspended state?  Or is it 100% guarantee of corrupting and losing the virtual machine?

Thanks for any help.