[Wine] Can't run Mercedes Benz Star Service Manual Library CD

[doxland]

I'm mainly a noobie to Wine.
I've got Wine installed  in Ubuntu 9.04 via Synaptic
The viewer.exe won't run directly as it's supposed to 
I've managed to get WHIP4 to start the installation process but it comes to a point and gives the message"Cannot detect Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer on your machine. You must use DWF files with OLE compliant tools like Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Word to use WHIP"
Not sure where to turn now.

I've also got XP installed via VirtualBox but can't get much past having the CD show the contained files.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks very much