Please use plain text in the wine-users mailing list, not html mail. You wrote: -- snip -- Have wine-1.3.19-1.fc14.i686 I started out fresh and ran wine ie6setup.exe which I downloaded from wine-hq, and it popped a banner saying I already have a newer version installed!! That's weird!! Where would that be?? -- snip -- I don't think winehq offers an ie6 download, so your story is a bit confusing. Try this: cd $HOME mv .wine .wine.orig wget winetricks.org/winetricks sh winetricks ie6 That ought to install ie6 ok.