http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13545
--- Comment #8 from kazmirzak@web.de 2008-06-03 09:57:27 --- Hi,
no, Vincent, that is not true. Wine does start as normal user if I type "wine abc.exe" - it only can't get the directory right. It is START that doesn't work as a normal user.
Please, could you try on your machine to cd to a given directory, decide for a file (abc.bmp) and try "start abc.bmp" - what do you get?
Apart from hoping for your particular answer, I will wait till 0.9.60 is in the official repositories, which can't take too long I suppose.