http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10043
--- Comment #7 from Louis Lenders xerox_xerox2000@yahoo.co.uk 2007-10-16 11:19:08 --- yeah, you are right, guess i had a native gdiplus lying in system32 somewhere
You could try 'wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks && sh winetricks gdiplus'
that should get you around that problem