http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20265
--- Comment #8 from Howie Hoyt n4af@pvrc.org 2010-05-05 06:22:14 --- YMMV, but for me, was able to get TR4W working by deprecating wine back to 1.0.1.
In the case of Ubuntu 10.04, removed wine 1.1.42 and installed 1.0.1 In the case of Mepis 8.5, removed wine 1.1.38 and installed 1.0.1
Regards, Howie N4AF