http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13993
--- Comment #10 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-01-02 14:52:20 --- (In reply to comment #9)
I was able to get past the previously reported install shield error by using sudo -i to become super user during install.
Don't run wine as root! That shouldn't make a difference, anyway. It may have been that using a new wineprefix fixed it.