http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32364
--- Comment #6 from Tony Crawford tonybcrawford@gmail.com 2012-12-22 10:09:05 CST --- (In reply to comment #5)
You need to actually install native msxml3 to test with it setting winecfg to 'native'. If it helps attach +msxml,+tid log running in clean wineprefix. You might also need to install msxml4 or msxml6 depending on what your application really uses.
Thanks for the comments. I tried all this and get the same error. There appears to be an issue with Microsoft's Jet engine! I'll post my short debug output with +msxml, +tid. Cheers