Howdy all,
I e-mailed wine-users a few days ago, but had no volunteers. I know most of you here aren't the target audience for using winetricks directx9, but since neither Dan or I game much, we need a guinea pig ;-).
Long story short, someone complained that 'winetricks directx9' crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead of 2k. I've played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for games, however, I don't know.
So, test it please. If you get wine from SVN, there's a beta of it: http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
just use 'winetricks directx9-beta' for the XP version, and 'winetricks directx9' for windows 2k (on OS X, it forces directx9-beta). Please let me know which version works better for games that need it.
Any problems, file a bug at winezeug (http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/issues/list). For faster service, shoot me an e-mail, since I don't get e-mail notifications of any new bugs there...