It's kind of sad nobody noticed this for so long, but it seems the new visual regedit tool caused a major regression in the ./tools/wineinstall script - of course rather than simply importing the winedefault.reg file it now pops up the regedit window.
I'd submit a patch but I have no idea why this happens - the new regedit *does* support importing reg files from the command line right?
thanks -mike