[Wine]"Severe - Unable to create a directory under ..."

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I'm playing around with installation of a number of older, Win
98/Win ME era sound programs. One I'm working on right now comes up
with what, for me, is sort of a standard problem. I get a dialog box
with this message:

"Severe - Unable to create a directory under C:\PROG~FBU\GSampler.
Please check write access to this directory."

I'm running the installation form an xterm. The only thing in the
xterm seems pretty benign:

flash cdrom $ fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet.

The current contents of the GSampler directory are:

flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/
CD1FileSize.lst
CD2FileSize.lst
CD3FileSize.lst
CRP32DLL.DLL
CRP9516E.DLL
CRYP95E.DLL
DeIsL1.isu
GS.HLP
GSEDIT.HLP
GSEnv.dll
SCONVERT.HLP
Sconvert.exe
VRTKRNLD.vxd
XCK16DB.EXE
gs.exe
gsdll.dll
gsedit.exe
midi.drv
mp3FileSize.lst
oemFileSize.lst
oemFileSize_GetsAppendedToCD1FileSizeForLeOemBuilds.lst
register.txt
release.txt
unstall.dll
flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/

Now, the GSampler directory was created by this install program. Why
can't this program create a directory under GSampler? Permissions look
like:

flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ls -al c/Program\ Files/
ls: c/Program Files/GSampler/ls: No such file or directory
c/Program Files/:
total 36
drwxr-xr-x  9 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 mark users 4096 Oct 18 19:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 May 26 10:20 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x  4 mark users 4096 Oct 18 18:11 Finale NotePad 2004
drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 GSampler
drwxr-xr-x  3 mark users 4096 Sep 19 15:53 Native Instruments
drwxr-xr-x  3 mark users 4096 May 28 07:55 Sonic Foundry Setup
drwxr-xr-x  4 mark users 4096 Sep 18 08:59 Steinberg
drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 Sep 18 11:44 Vstplugins
flash mark $ 

And the Wine threads seemed to be owned by me:

mark     .. 10:51   0:11 /usr/bin/wineserver
mark     .. 10:51   0:09 /usr/bin/wine-pthread E:\_ins0432._mp
-fS:\SETUP.INS -z1 -cx -xE:\

What can I do to allow the program to write to this location???

Thanks,
Mark