[Wine] Not a single program works

[walt]

makuba wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I feel a bit stupid, as there must be an obvious reason for this: Almost every program I try to start crashes, some with, some without error messages. The most common error messages I read complained about access violations. However, some programs, mostly setup-programs, managed to initialize a GUI and then just silently crashed, of which I was notified by a WINE-window apologizing for the inconvenience.
> I tried several things including a complete removal of WINE to eliminate a possibly messed up configuration and messing up the configuration again.
> All programs are listed in the AppDB (Guitar Pro 5, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, Anno 1602...) and are at least rated gold for me - I am using Ubuntu 9.04.
> My currently installed version of WINE is 1.1.23.

Are you starting these programs from a command prompt, e.g. "wine foo.exe"
so you can see the diagnostic messages?  A few example error messages might
give us a hint.