[Wine] Problem running applications - Newbie

[Matías Gutiérrez Reto]

I'm new to wine and I'm running wine version 0.9.2 on Fedora Core 1 
and I have the following problem:

I install any windows application from its installer (setup.exe or similar). 
Once installed, in order to run it I need to go to the directory where the 
aplication is installed, for example 

cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\MiniReminder

And then run the application, for example:

wine "MiniReminder.exe"

The problem is that when I try to run any application from outside of its 
directory it doesn't work. Or if I make a shortcut from winecfg to the 
application exe file the same thing occurs. The applications seems not 
to detect where ini or cfg are installed.

Does anybody have any idea?

Does anybody knows any wine tutorial oriented to newbies?

Thanks in advance, regards,
Matías