http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2716
------- Additional Comments From us@the-edmeades.demon.co.uk 2005-14-02 16:41 ------- D'oh... Did some more investigation prior to drafting email...
The problem here was you havent run wineprefixcreate. Once this is done, that key appears and the install gets to the first panel (which I dont understand the language of but looks about right!). With wine as I had it installed, the application traps because it doesnt expect this key missing - it is there on all windows systems by default.
Please confirm how you installed wine - was it an RPM or via CVS. If cvs please confirm running this resolves the problem, and we can close this bug off