You don't have to defend yourself, wine is still a kind of challenge, it is far from being perfect, it can be very complicated and frustrating, and the more information you give, the better. You should install wine 1.3.26, 1.2.3 is stable, but really old. You should start in a new WINEPREFIX and install the needed winetricks and your application again, the simplest way is to move/rename your old .wine folder, a new .wine folder will automatically be created by wine. There was another thread with jet40 troubles: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12555&highlight=dao360 Though that might be not really helpful. winetricks mdac and jet40 should work, if they still fail with an up2date wine, you might report a bug at http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/list > > > > > > Are you using Windows Mono or .NET? > > > > Windows That question was maybe a bit misleading, I wanted to know, if you used winetricks mono to install the Windows version of Mono (.NET substitute).