The networking bug has been fixed, but another problem is that I can't see any of the text. Appdb mentions something about installing tahoma.ttf from a Windows installation, which makes no sense to me, since I could see Steam displayed fine earlier, making this a regression. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this (or maybe it was a Steam upgrade?).
Also - Steam has a keyboard focus bug, with a documented patch here (from Stefan Dosinger): http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/03/0504.html Previously he reported that the patch might break other apps, but if it fixes Steam, then it must be on the right track - surely it can be changed so it's acceptable for Wine CVS. I don't understand why a known bug with a known patch remains unfixed.