Do the suggestions at the end of http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325 help any? Yes, you can run old versions of wine for particular apps; you just need to install the old version of wine in e.g. /usr/local/wine-1.2.3 and run /usr/local/wine-1.2.3/bin/wine instead of wine, and you probably need to have a separate WINEPREFIX, e.g. export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-old before running that app.
