Alright so now I did the exact same things I did in my starting post, but now I used the newest .41 version. Sound problems are gone, no cracking or popping, frame-lag on WMV's still remains. I have encountered a new problem: it crashes when it tries to play an MP3 file. > > *install ubuntu 9.10 > ---*update it > *install wine 1.2 from synaptic > *add ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa in the repository > *upgrade wine up to the latest version as of 25mar2010 > *install m$ office 07 > ---*add riched 20 in winecfg > *install wmp9 using winetricks > *install the k-lite basic codec pack