Rewriting:
We can conclude that VM was distracted first by the mention of the ies4lin and second by attempts to attribute the problem to ies4lin, and that, because of these distractions, he was unable to assess properly the issue at hand. One also concludes that VM over-relied on the features of the development process automation (bugzilla) and this this was also causel to tine incident since data available from bugzilla effectively masked the real problem.
I also wanted to mention that ies4lin SHOULD be a distraction. If users want to use unsupported tools to modify their configuration do we really want to be debugging those modifications as well as wine issues?
Chris