http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11486
--- Comment #9 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-05-12 00:07:44 --- (In reply to comment #8)
I just tried a scratch install of AO and can confirm this same bug.
A workaround is to install IEs4Linux and start AO with ie4l's wineprefix. If you do that, the html is displayed correctly and the patcher works.
Can you try and see which native dll fixes this? Sounds like it may be shdcocvw/mshtml...