Winereal at 98%CPU and nothing happens

[Hatseflats]

I'm running mandrake 8.1 and i installed the mandrake RPM. If i try to run: 
wine notepad.exe winreal keeps running at 98% CPU and nothing appears on 
the desktop, i let it run for 2 hours. I dl'ed winecheck form winehq.com 
and these are the results:

--------------------------- checking Wine base files 
---------------------------
001. Checking for file "wine"...                            OK.
002. Checking for correct .so lib config (please wait)...   OK.

----------------------------- checking config file 
-----------------------------
003. Checking config file access...                         OK.

>>> Checking drive A settings:
004.  Checking Path option...                               OK.
005.  Checking Type option...                               OK.
006.  Checking device /dev/fd0...                           OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive C settings:
007.  Checking Path option...                               OK.
008.  Checking Type option...                               OK.
009.  Checking Filesystem option...                         OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive D settings:
010.  Checking Path option...                               OK.
011.  Checking Type option...                               OK.
012.  Checking device /dev/cdrom...                         OK.
013.  Checking Filesystem option...                         OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive E settings:
014.  Checking Path option...                               OK.
015.  Checking Type option...                               OK.
016.  Checking Filesystem option...                         OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive F settings:
017.  Checking Path option...                               OK.
018.  Checking Type option...                               OK.
019.  Checking Filesystem option...                         OK.
--> OK.

--------------------- checking system devices used by Wine 
---------------------
020. Checking sound device /dev/dsp...                      CRITICAL 
(/dev/dsp does not ex
ist).
- ADVICE: use MAKEDEV script to create it.
021. Checking audio mixer device /dev/mixer...              CRITICAL 
(/dev/mixer does not
exist).
- ADVICE: use MAKEDEV script to create it.
022. Checking MIDI sequencer device /dev/sequencer...       BAD 
(/dev/sequencer does not e
xist).
- ADVICE: use MAKEDEV script to create it.

----------------------- checking registry configuration 
------------------------
023. Checking availability of winedefault.reg entries...    CRITICAL (entry 
"SHAREDMEMLOCA
TION" not found in system.reg registry file).
- ADVICE: file winedefault.reg doesn't seem to have been applied using 
regapi.
024. Checking availability of windows registry entries...   OK.

24 tests. 0 suspicious, 1 bad, 3 critical, 0 failed.
Wine configuration correctness score: 58.34%

Now my question is, what can i do to make it run. maybe obvious from this, 
but i'm a newbe as you've probably guessed. How should i apply 
winedefault.reg using regapi? Much appreciated.