http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8033
--- Comment #35 from James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com 2007-10-06 17:23:08 --- I don't think you understand how the development process works. Wine is alpha and the developers make no guarantee of stability. A part of helping with the development process is running apps in a clean .wine environment so that no external factors affect the bug. Of course your gecko and configuration settings didn't show up when you moved away .wine and called wineprefixcreate. All you have to do to get them back is
$ mv .wine-save .wine
It sounds like you need to read the Wine User Guide to get a better understanding of how Wine works, especially regarding wine prefixes.
http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
To sum it up, if you can't reproduce this bug with a clean .wine, then this bug will be closed as invalid.