http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14355
--- Comment #3 from Yolande Haneder yolande@haneder.biz 2008-07-08 11:24:24 --- Here I found once a discussion about the problem (if you look at the log file in the temp directory, you will see that the error exactly occurred at the same point of the discussion). http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en/vssetup/thread/2eb17ac3-47b3-4b8c-97e0-3...
Since I did not get anyone else to get this error, this had not been fixed for ages.
Looks like a msi issue.