[Wine] MSI failure while trying to install gmax

[A Nonny Moose]

So I am trying to get back to finding the error in gmax, and I have to reinstall it because of the new machine and all.  So I tried just putting it in after downloading it from TurboSquid.  It complained about MSI having a major error, and quit, leaving me with a partial install.  I got a panel suggesting this might be a problem with wine.

So I used winetricks to install msi2.  Failed again:  Here is the console output from both the msi2 winetricks install and the attempt to install gmax.

I would really appreciate some advice here.  I may have missed something in preparing my environment or this could be a legitimate bug.  Please advise.

Log:
john at john-GA-MA78LM-S2H:~$ winetricks
Executing wget -O InstMsiA.exe -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe
--2010-11-13 14:13:21--  http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe
Resolving download.microsoft.com... 64.39.179.54, 64.39.179.55
Connecting to download.microsoft.com|64.39.179.54|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1709160 (1.6M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `InstMsiA.exe'

100%[======================================>] 1,709,160    591K/s   in 2.8s    

2010-11-13 14:13:24 (591 KB/s) - `InstMsiA.exe' saved [1709160/1709160]

Setting Windows version to win98
Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\set-winver.reg
Executing wine /home/john/.cache/winetricks/InstMSIA.exe
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
fixme:imagehlp:BindImageEx (0, "C:\\windows\\system32\\msisip.dll", "C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32", (null), (nil)): stub
fixme:imagehlp:BindImageEx (0, "C:\\windows\\system32\\msihnd.dll", "C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32", (null), (nil)): stub
fixme:imagehlp:BindImageEx (0, "C:\\windows\\system32\\msiexec.exe", "C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32", (null), (nil)): stub
fixme:imagehlp:BindImageEx (0, "C:\\windows\\system32\\msi.dll", "C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32\\;C:\\windows\\system32", (null), (nil)): stub
Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: msi msiexec.exe
Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\override-dll.reg
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides]
"*msi"="native,builtin"
"*msiexec.exe"="native,builtin"
Clearing Windows version back to default
Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\unset-winver.reg
Install of msi2 done
winetricks done.
john at john-GA-MA78LM-S2H:~$ wine Downloads/TurboSquid/gmax12.exe
fixme:sfc:SFC_3 0
fixme:advapi:SaferCloseLevel ((nil)) stub
err:ole:create_server class {000c101c-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {000c101c-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x4
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null),"MsiInstaller"): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L"MsiInstaller"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0002,0x0000,0x000003f7,(nil),0x0006,0x00000000,0x90c6f8,(nil)): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0002,0x0000,0x000003f7,(nil),0x0006,0x00000000,0x1316e0,(nil)): stub
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.
john at john-GA-MA78LM-S2H:~$