[Wine] SoapMaker won't install completely or startup

[beasel]

Hi,

We are down to one Windows program remaining, and if someone could help me get it to work through WINE, it would be hugely appreciated!  The program is a small commercial program called SoapMaker3.  The website is here, but unfortunately there is no free version or demo: www.soapmaker.ca

When I try to install this, it seems to work fine, and it says it has completed installation, but it takes only 1 or 2 seconds, which seems way too short.  Then when I try to run the program, it starts up with splash screen and then allowed me to enter the product registration key.  However, beyond that point it crashes during startup.  I am using wine v. 1.3.7 on Ubuntu 10.4.  It gives several ole errors (details below) so I tried to use dcom98 through winetricks.  However, that was worse, nothing would install or run at all, so I have gone back to the default WINE.

When it crashes, the program itself gives the following error message:

SoapMaker has encountered an error and needs to close.
Location: MainForm 0.1
Error: 429 ActiveX component can't create object

When I run through a terminal, I get the following output:

brian at darth-vader:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/SoapMaker3$ wine SoapMaker3.exe
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc76c4,12550,1,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32fa70), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc96e4,12550,1,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32f764), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,326,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32f764), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132148), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132230), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x1322a8), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132340), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x1323d0), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132498), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132688), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x132728), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x1327b8), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c100), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c680), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c718), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c7b0), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c840), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17c908), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17caf8), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17cb98), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0xfc8e5c,0,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=16,y=16,f=0,0x17cc28), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x134098)->(0x181f28, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.

Any insights or advice on where to turn next would be great, as I am at a loss, but would love to get this working and help to improve WINE in the process if possible.

Thanks!