The patch that gives the problem you're (RIchard Cohen) seeing is:
This is:
Ivan Leo Puoti puoti@inwind.it Better EXE version check in VERSION_GetLinkedDllVersion.
(by the way guys, can we get into a habit of posting the log message as well as link to patch.py when posting commit links?)
At WineConf I asked Alexandre if he would accept a patch that just deleted the automagic version logic and he said yes. It causes far more problems than it's worth IMHO. It should just die.
thanks -mike