http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11054
--- Comment #2 from Forrest Samuels forrest@alumni.ncsu.edu 2008-01-06 17:49:26 --- The gdiplus.dll that was part of the installation was not installed so effectively yes, it was removed. From my testing, this was a result of me already setting the OS to Windows XP. If you leave the OS to the default Windows 2000, gdiplus.dll is installed.
I deleted my .wine directory, left the OS as Windows 2000, reinstalled the 2.3.8 version and it did install gdiplus.dll. The errors are no longer shown. Doesn't that mean though that the functions are missing from the wine dll but not the included dll?