http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18985
--- Comment #9 from A Wine user RandomAccountName@mail.com 2010-04-07 09:54:01 --- Still present in 1.1.42 and git.
A little observation: after closing several of those access violation dialogs, it eventually produces a different error message - "list index out of bounds (0)". After closing quite a lot of error dialogs, they eventually stop appearing and the program becomes usable again, at least to an extent.