http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28671
--- Comment #5 from Christian lucasc82@gmail.com 2011-11-28 10:47:42 CST --- For me a workaround is overriding oleaut32.dll (thanks to adbs98 :-)). Tested to work on wine 1.3.31 (Ubuntu 10.4) and wine 1.3.28 (Ubuntu 11.10).
adbs98, can you confirm this?
At this point I am not sure any-more if this is a valid wine bug. winetricks is installed but is not needed for the fix.
many thanks for any insights.