[Wine] Secret of Monkey Island SE, steam on wine, crashes on start

[cyclingrelf]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me?

I'm trying to run Secret of Monkey Island special edition in Steam on wine with Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. I can install steam and use it to install the game (after it installs directx), apparently with no problems, but when I try to run the game, a window opens saying "Preparing to launch The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition". This closes and then a blank window opens, which is initally white. There is an audible "clunk" from the speakers, the white rectangle shrinks slightly into the top right corner, leaving a black border on the left and bottom. At the bottom right, a Steam logo apears saying "Access the Steam Community while playing". And then nothing else happens. No visuals appear at all and no more sound beyond the original clunk. Sometimes, it then crashes completely with an error saying "The program MISE.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." It doesn't always do this, sometimes it just sits there blankly until I close it down.

Hardware
Compaq Evo N610c laptop.
Intel Pentium 4 processor
1GB RAM
30 GB ATA hard disk
ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW graphics chip
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller

Software
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
Wine 1.3
wine 1.3-gecko
winetricks
Steam 

I used winetricks to install d3dx9, vcrun2008, vcrun2008sp1 and xta

Wine is configured to Windows 2000, ALSA driver, hardware acceleration: emulation, Default sample rate 44100 Default bits per sample 16

I tried using the terminal to run wine MISE.exe, but with the same effect as already described, and no error messages in the terminal, so nothing to help me there.

I'd be grateful if anyone can help. I'm stuck!  :?