Darius:
Thanks for the analysis and for reporting it to Apple. I sent in the crash reports as well.
A VMware Mac OS virtual machine does not have hardware 3D acceleration, and nor does a physical Mac booted in Safe Mode, so it's possible reproduce the same crash without VMware Fusion by booting a physical Apple Mac into Safe Mode (hold Shift when you press the Mac's power button to turn it on)... then try to open the same file in Preview on the host, and you'll see exactly the same failure.
So it's not directly VMware Fusion's fault, although perhaps if we had 3D acceleration for Mac OS guests it might not happen in our virtual machines...
Ah - didn't realize that about Safe Mode. Sorry for blaming virtualization 
So when is Fusion going to support 3D acceleration for Mac OS X guests? 
- Andy