[Wine]config question

[Richard]

Hi ,I've gotta few probs getting wine to fuction properly on this machine.
running mandrake 10.0 Comunity Kernel 2.6.3-15mdk

1. The font is semi italic and difficult to read, screen res set to 
1152x864.

I set up wine on a friends machine and the file manager looked exactly 
the same as if he was running windows.

Checking the version I get this >
[root at g8jvm /]# wine --version
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\windows\\system" is not 
accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/', 
starting in the Windows directory.
Wine 20040716

And if I try to start a prog , this >
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\windows\\system" is not 
accessible .
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory 
'/home/richard',  starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot open (null)
[root at g8jvm richard]# su richard
[richard at g8jvm richard]$ wine Echolink
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\windows\\system" is not 
accessible .
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory 
'/home/richard',  starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot open (null)

That occurs as root or user.
Could someone please point me in the right direction, remember you had 
to start somewhere.
The good thing I found on my friends machine was that wine seems to be 
the only  emulator that can cope with VoIP props written for windows 
without screwing up the sampling clock .
NICE :)

TIA
Richard