A pity.
What about fixing Bug #2666, about how the menu text colour is 'lost' in Age of Empires I & II. I know these games are not really playable without a DIB engine, but they won't be properly playable either without the campaign texts etc. I apologize if I seem a bit hasty, but the deadline is fast approaching . . . :)
That one is an easy fix I think. The text works in CrossOver. So all one has to do is to download and compile the crossover wine tree sources, and find out which of the hacks in there fixes the text, clean the hack up and send it to wine-patches