package configuration failure leads to reconfiguring every time a package gets installed

When installing the vmware player package the one of the modprobe calls that get run /etc/init.d/vmware-player failed, which caused the configuration of the package to fail.

Now whenever I install/upgrade any package(s) it tries to configure the vmware-player package again, and fails because some step in the configuration doesn't like letting run again (which means it will do it again on the next package install).

Output when attempting to configure package:

Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...)
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.

Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 172.16.146.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf that this program was about to install
already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 192.168.156.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]
The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor done
   Virtual ethernet done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 failed
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1