http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18633
--- Comment #4 from Vincent Povirk madewokherd@gmail.com 2009-05-26 15:34:46 --- gdi32 is not gdiplus.
I think that removing your wine prefix and starting over will reset it to builtin (unless the installer is messing with wine-specific settings, but that seems unlikely to me).
To be absolutely certain you're using builtin gdiplus, you can set the environment variable WINEDLLOVERRIDES=gdiplus=b.
It's possible that builtin still crashes, but if so it should crash for a different reason.