[Bug 6560] New: Problems with Office 97 and "Normal.dot"

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6560

Summary: Problems with Office 97 and "Normal.dot"
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.24.
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-files
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I installed a German MS Office 97 with wine-0.9.24.
When I start Office 97 the second time it complains about not being able to 
read the file Normal.dot. The complete error message is as follows:
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Word konnte diese Datei (Normal.dot) nicht lesen. Bitte stellen Sie die 
Netzwerkverbindung wieder her, oder ersetzen Sie die Disketten und versuchen 
Sie es erneut.
|Wiederholen| |Abbrechen|
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My poor translation to English:
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Word could not read this file (Normal.dot). Please re-enable the network 
connection or replace the floppies and retry.
|Retry| |Cancel|
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Clicking "Retry" doesn't help; the dialog always reappears. After 
clicking "Cancel" Word presents another but somehow incomplete warning dialog:
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Word kann vorhandene "[]
|OK|
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In English that means something like "Word can existing...". I will attach a 
screenshot.

When I want to exit Word I get another warning message:
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Soll die bereits existierende Datei Normal.dot ersetzt werden?
|Ja| |Nein| |Abbrechen|
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Translation:
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Do you want to overwrite the existing file Normal.dot?
|Yes| |No| |Cancel|
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If I choose "No" a FileSave dialog opens. If I close this FileSave dialog I am 
back in Word.

If I try to exit Word again I get a _another_different_ warning message:
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Die durchgeführten Änderungen haben Auswirkungen auf die Dokumentenvorlage 
Normal.dot. Möchten Sie diese Änderungen speichern?
|Ja| |Nein| |Abbrechen|
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My translation:
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The changes have impact on the template Normal.dot. Do you want to save this 
changes?
|Yes| |No| |Cancel|
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Only after choosing "No" I finally managed to exit Word.

Looking at the file does not show any specialities:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ronny ronny 30208 2006-10-29 21:32 ./drive_c/Programme/Microsoft 
Office/Vorlagen/Normal.dot

This is a regression. The problem doesn't exist with wine-0.9.20 but in all 
following versions (tested until wine-0.9.24)