Ummm. This problem seems to have been fixed by just going back to Wine 1.1.19 (the ones used in the AppDB description of the game). I am sort of new to this, so does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Specifically, I am able to run this game properly now. I can also use the Circle of Eight modpack and the graphical front end by installing .NET2 using the second method described at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3754&iTestingId=41910 Now everything works fine. No crashes. No problems. Is this due to something which has cropped up in later versions? What course of action would be appropriate here? File a bug? Thanks.