https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44595
--- Comment #2 from steve donato stevedonato@gmail.com ---
(In reply to Zhiyi Zhang from comment #1)
Your Wine version is old, please retest it with the latest version. Thanks.
Wine-staging 2.4 is the latest release on Ubuntu. I copied a backup of my .wine directory from 12/12/2016. Still using the same version of wine-staging 2.4 and the error/bug nolonger exists. So clearly it is an issue with something in the .wine directory and not wine code itself. I can send the version of this good .wine directory if anybody is interested in comparing it to my last .wine attachment.
I concider this item as closed.