[Wine]Can't get wine to work on amd64

[ben]

My system:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester core
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1 GB Corsair DDR-400
Nvidia 6600GT 128MB
(2) 74 GB SATA WD Raptors

I'm running gentoo with the 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 kernel. My root partition
is on a linux software raid.

Problem:
After many hours of research I learned that I can't compile wine on my
64-bit platform, i have to download a precompiled binary for a 32-bit
architecture and it will work. Well I downloaded
"wine-20050111-1fc3winehq.i386.rpm" and installed it and when I run
wine as a regular user, I get this error message:

bash-2.05b$ wine
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/webster/.wine'...
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0
addr 0x55cdff50
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/home/webster/.wine'.
bash-2.05b$ wineserver: could not save registry branch to
/home/webster/.wine-HYxf2i/system.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to
/home/webster/.wine-HYxf2i/userdef.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to
/home/webster/.wine-HYxf2i/user.reg : No such file or directory

I also have fedora core 3 on this system (on another software raid)
and i installed the same rpm and got the same exact error message. I
read someone created a 32-bit ebuild that is a miracle solution
although I couldn't properly uninstall my rpm because i got this error
message:

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.58306: line 2: /sbin/chkconfig: No such file or directory
error: %preun(wine-20050111-1fc3winehq) scriptlet failed, exit status 127

I installed that ebuild anyway and it didn't fix any problems.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get wine up and running?

Thank you for your time,
ben