I could not get IE Help, or any application based on it, to work after the September snapshot. I did a regression and identified the commit of 20040824 16:00:16 CDT as causing the problem. This commit edits this patch:
http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=13475
Among other things this patch changes wine/dlls/Makefile.in wine/configure.ac wine/configure
I discovered during the regression that if I use ./tools/wineinstall and let wine set up my fake windows and .wine/config file I couldn't get IE Help to work. However, I used the September snapshot to test this, if I do "./configure, make depend && make" followed by install" and used a .wine generated by wine before the commit I identified, IE Help works.
I also noticed when I found the patch that it was edited today to change the files that I noted above, but I can't tell if the changes address the subject of this post.
I'm a real rookie when it comes to reading this patches and can suppy only information to this list. If it will help, I will be more than happy to create "diff" files from the "before and after" wine versions to help close in on the situation.
Dan