Did you review the AppDB stuff? Looks like it's got some information you may find useful. I'm new to wine also so I can't really help directly. I have seen it mentioned that you should 'cd' to the directory and 'wine program.exe' instead of 'wine c:\\long\ path\\program.exe', too. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1655