[Wine] Wine not working at all... Urgent

[smartflower2002]

hey guys, 
i am  a newbie at linux, 
i have installed fedora 12, updated most of the stuff of it.. (expect policies)
and i install wine using yum..
it installed wine, installed its dependeces..

but now when  i open any exe setup using wine. nothing happens,. nothing at all.... 
call i can see is the glass of wine jumping besides the mouse curson..

and when i try to install a software using "install" option in "wine software uninstaller"
i get a error message..

but the strange thing is. the error messege is filled with "BOX'es"

4 small boxes nothing else.... no text nothing...

so i unlocked the root, logged in using root. and tried to install software from it.. same problem.. can anyone please plaese help me... coz i really neeed to get it working..

PS:- all suggestions are accepted, coz im learning linux, and i am ready to screw it for learning......

(install wine from yum using SU)