My update says that the icon is on the desktop. However the other issues still remain (the icon not being a WinRAR icon, and the menu not being put in my KDE menu, but instead under C:\Program\ Files\WinRAR
This is a fresh .wine directory, as this is a fresh install of Slackware 11, not an upgrade, so I know it isn't a config issue.
This is definitely a bug.. wineshelllink is failing to fork and exec, or so I gathered from a message right before the installer quit that said something to that effect. I will attach the full output in just a sec.
Here is the output, attached for your viewing pleasure. It is not a full trace, just the output from running wine wrar362.exe with no WINEDEBUG= parameters.. Looks like something is broken either in the shell linker itself or in the menu builder, not sure which yet.