I also have Crossover Office installed, and have used that to install IE6. That install is also ruined and that hasn't anything to do with my wine install! So it seems the problems lays somewhere outside of wine ... Could anyone think of a reason why this could have something to do with the file system? I ran fsck.ext2 yesterday on the partition and the number of errors were immense. Since I don't speak "fsck", I just ran "fsck -y" (yes to all questions). The number of questions/errors (I piped the output to a file, and counted with wc -l) was in the 100k range. All the questions had either to do with - some count being wrong - removing extended attributes (that were wrong) - or fixing bitmap errors. Everything seems to work just fine, otherwise. This is really the only thing I can think of that might have something to do with it (outside of wine).