[Wine] Wine not starting/Wine config not starting

[SquALeD]

Hi people first time Wine user here,

Thought I'd try wine out on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop box as there's one or 2 windows progs I want to run.

Installed wine the way instructed on here by adding to the software sources and the install went fine. However when I try to click on 'configure wine' or try to access the notepad in Wine nothing happens although I can browse to the C: folder.

If I run winecfg in the terminal I get this output:

X Error of failed request:  XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
  Major opcode of failed request:  129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
  Serial number of failed request:  85
  Current serial number in output stream:  85
X Error of failed request:  XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
  Major opcode of failed request:  129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
  Serial number of failed request:  85
  Current serial number in output stream:  85

Whats actually supposed to happen?  [Question] 

I don't know if it makes any difference but I run my Ubuntu box in my workshop headless (Sorta 24/7 torrent/media streamer box) and VNC into it every now and then from a PPC Mac so no monitor. Would this make a difference? Can you even run Wine over a VNC??

Oh, the 9.04 is fully up to date as well.

Sorry to be a bit vague but I'm as new as you can get to Wine and still a fairly newb linux user

Any help would be great.. Cheers!