[Wine] Problems on recent versions of Wine - MS Office 2000 and Shockwave

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Phil Reynolds <phil at tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote:
> I don't make that much use of Wine but do sometimes need real MS Word,
>  and sometimes like to play some of the games on the shockwave.com site.
>  However, there have been a number of upgrades recently to Wine and these
>  have now stopped working with the following symptoms:
>
>  Office:
>
>  Running applications from an existing install says "This application must
>  be installed to run. Please run Setup from the location where you
>  originally installed the application." - also a fresh install fails as
>  stated in another thread.

Which version of Word?
What version of Wine are you using now, and what was the last version
that worked?
What version of Linux are you running?

Thanks,
Dan