After following your directions on disabling dw20.exe when I attempt to install I get a log line that says: wine: cannot fine L"D:\\Office.en-us\\DW20.exe" and also get a different window saying: "Setup did not complete successfully, We are sorry for the inconvenience" I think that the executable bit issue is a one that prevents running the executable which is not my problem, it always runs with "wine setup.exe". The version is Office_Professional_Plus_2007. When I said wine1.2 was based on the line written on the synaptic manager, but when I typed "wine --version" then I read 1.1.42. I'm about to throw the towel... Cheers, Daniel