I tried running the Avid program through the terminal. Try One, I connected to the VPN then ran "$wine start "C:\\Program Files\\Avid\\iNews\\anws.exe. This is what I got back: "nlavon@nlavon-desktop:~$ wine start "C:\\Program Files\\Avid\\iNEWS\\anws.exe" fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500 nlavon@nlavon-desktop:~$ fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_ActivateKeyboardLayout 0x400, 0008: stub!" Then the program started with the same errors I had before. Any ideas what this means? I've googled it and seen references to it but no explanations that I can use. Thanks for any help.