http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7802
------- Additional Comments From Speeddymon@gmail.com 2007-20-03 09:47 ------- Before I attach the traces, here is some additional info
If I go into winecfg and uncheck the box to link wine's desktop to x's ~/Desktop, and then manually create ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/(user)/Start\ Menu and ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/(user)/Start\ Menu/Programs
Then when I install WinRAR, the lnk files go to the proper location in ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/(user)/<Desktop/Start\ Menu/Start\ Menu/Programs> and the .desktop files are put in the correct location under either ~/Desktop or ~/.local/share/applications/wine
SO the correct fix is to make (most likely wineprefixcreate) create ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/(user)/Start\ Menu and ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/(user)/Start\ Menu/Programs
and make winecfg default to _not_ linking the user's wine desktop/my docs etc to the user's xorg desktop/home dir etc