[Bug 7573] Steam games don't show up as purchased

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7573

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--- Comment #27 from jeff   2007-08-23 22:42:27 ---
I also checked HKCU/software/valve/steam/users/<uid>/licenses and it begins
with "01 00 00 00 ..."
After looking at the code for regedit and trying to import new registry keys
with similar values it seems that there is a very serious bug in how regedit
parses hex valued keys. From my initial tests it seems that any value that
starts with 0 causes a "regedit: ERROR converting CSV hex stream. Invalid
sequence at ..." error when importing a key with that value. So any hex value
of the form "0x" (where x is a digit from 0-e) in the comma separated list
causes an error.

It seems like this might affect Steam by Wine not parsing the "licenses" value
correctly and Steam thinking that you don't actually own the games you
purchased. So when you delete the key from the registry, Steam can't check the
value in the registry and must rely on it's own server-side data to determine
what games you own. It would also explain why even when my purchased games show
up as purchased I still can't start some of them and get a "You do not have a
valid subscription" error. The "licenses" key is stored in the registry again
and when Steam needs to check the value when starting the game Wine parses it
incorrectly. 
Could anyone who has working purchased games please check the value of
HKCU/software/valve/steam/users/<uid>/licenses, since if it has any "0x" digit
pairs then my speculation would be wrong.