http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25906
--- Comment #6 from Erik wine@erikdokter.nl 2011-02-01 13:50:28 CST --- I tried again on a new prefix, and got the launcher working.
I have installed wine-gecko-1.2.0-beta1, ie68 (with winetricks-alpha) and flash. Now the Launcher works, although it is not yet as it should be: the flash-object is moved a bit to the left, and because of that I can't access the Options menu.
I can, however, login and download updates.
It looks to me at the moment that the installation of IE8 sort-of solved the issue (as in: the Launcher works, but not perfect).
I have also tried the hack from comment 5, but that did not seem to make any difference.