http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13526
--- Comment #29 from Kevin K crush@crushkill.com 2008-07-20 18:39:01 --- (In reply to comment #28)
This is a riched20 library bug. You can solve the problem by installing native riched20.dll and riched32.dll from WinXP. See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6254
Thank you. Copying the windows XP dll's and setting winecfg to use them instead of the wine native dll's allowed me to complete and proceed with the installation of Ableton w/ wine 1.1.1.
Unfortunately, I am now able to confirm that the original problem exists.