The clipboard isn't fixed on VMware workstation 9 either.
I am running version 9..0.2 build 1031769. All my VMware tools are at the current version. My environment is a Windows host with a combination of Windows and Linux VM guests running. I rarely use unity mode, so it does not come into play here.
What I have found is that copy/paste works fine between Windows hosts and Windows guests as long as you don't start a Linux VM guest. Sometime after one starts a Linux VM guest, the feature quits working. In other words, I cannot paste something from the Windows host clipboard into a Windows guest application (though I can often do the reverse).