wine users - Aug 2009 - Attempting to install Prelude to Darkness in Wine

Hello all. I have recently been trying to run a rather old-ish indie rpg called
Prelude to Darkness in Wine. The installer runs uptil 100% and then I get the
following error message in the terminal:

fixme:shell:IPersistFile_fnGetCurFile (0x147e0
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x0000000a at address 0x7b860fd0
(thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000a in 32-bit code
(0x7b860fd0).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:7b860fd0 ESP:0032f318 EBP:0032f360 EFLAGS:00010286( R- -- I S - -P- )
EAX:0000000a EBX:7b8b7ff4 ECX:0032f4b4 EDX:00000031
ESI:00000001 EDI:0032f4b4
Stack dump:
0x0032f318: 00000000 f7f38ff4 7ec1c200 0032f851
0x0032f328: 0032f358 f7e162b9 00000000 7ec1c200
0x0032f338: 7eb13ec1 7eb0f21d 0032f370 00000000
0x0032f348: 00000000 00000000 7eb27ff4 0032f7f4
0x0032f358: 00651df0 0032f851 00000000 004053a3
0x0032f368: 00000000 00000000 0000000a ffffffff
Backtrace:
=>0 0x7b860fd0 WideCharToMultiByte+0x1f0(page=0, flags=0, src=0xa, srclen=1,
dst="\", dstlen=260, defchar=0x0, used=(nil))
[/home/aniruddha/downloads/wine-1.1.26/dlls/kernel32/../../include/wine/unicode.h:216]
in kernel32 (0x0032f360)
1 0x004053a3 in pyrrhic_tales_prelude_to_darknesZ:\home\aniruddha\
games\Ptd\Pyrrhic_Tales_Prelude_to_Darkness_v1.8_[final].exe (+0x53a3)
(0x00000000)
0x7b860fd0 WideCharToMultiByte+0x1f0
[/home/aniruddha/downloads/wine-1.1.26/dlls/kernel32/../../include/wine/unicode.h:216]
in kernel32: cmpw $0,0x0(%eax)
Unable to open file ''
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (67 modules)
PE 400000- 422000 Export pyrrhic_tales_prelude_to_darknesZ:\home\aniruddha\
games\Ptd\Pyrrhic_Tales_Prelude_to_Darkness_v1.8_[final].exe
ELF 7b800000-7b962000 Dwarf kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b962000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bcb1000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bcb1000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7e26b000-7e353000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7e280000-7e353000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7e353000-7e3ac000 Deferred riched20<elf>
\-PE 7e360000-7e3ac000 \ riched20
ELF 7e3ed000-7e421000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7e3f0000-7e421000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e421000-7e42a000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e42a000-7e42f000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e42f000-7e433000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e433000-7e43b000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e43b000-7e445000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e445000-7e44b000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e44b000-7e44e000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e44e000-7e46f000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7e450000-7e46f000 \ imm32
ELF 7e46f000-7e474000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e474000-7e48e000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e48e000-7e492000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e492000-7e497000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e497000-7e586000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e586000-7e596000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e596000-7e5ae000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e5ae000-7e5b7000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e5d6000-7e673000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e5e0000-7e673000 \ winex11
ELF 7e673000-7e688000 Deferred keyboard.drv16.so
PE 7e680000-7e688000 Deferred keyboard.drv16
ELF 7e6ec000-7e713000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e713000-7e740000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e740000-7e756000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e756000-7e7cd000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e7ec000-7e800000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7e7f0000-7e800000 \ lz32
ELF 7e800000-7e86d000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e810000-7e86d000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e86d000-7e969000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7e890000-7e969000 \ ole32
ELF 7e969000-7ea31000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7e970000-7ea31000 \ comctl32
ELF 7ea31000-7ea8f000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7ea40000-7ea8f000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7ea8f000-7ec1d000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7eaa0000-7ec1d000 \ shell32
ELF 7ec1d000-7ec73000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec30000-7ec73000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ec73000-7ed15000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec80000-7ed15000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ed15000-7ee61000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ed30000-7ee61000 \ user32
ELF 7ef8b000-7ef97000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ef97000-7efa2000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7efa2000-7efbb000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efbb000-7efe1000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efe1000-7effc000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7eff0000-7effc000 \ version
ELF f7c71000-f7c75000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f7c75000-f7dd8000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF f7dd9000-f7df2000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f7df7000-f7e00000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF f7e11000-f7f4d000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF f7f4f000-f7f70000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) Z:\home\aniruddha\games\Ptd\Pyrrhic_Tales_Prelude_
to_Darkness_v1.8_[final].exe
00000009 0 <=0000000e
0000001c 0
00000018 0
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000011
00000017 0
00000016 0
00000013 0
00000012 0
00000019
0000001e 0
0000001d 0
0000001b 0
0000001a 0
0000001f
00000020 0
00000021
00000022 0
Backtrace:
=>0 0x7b860fd0 WideCharToMultiByte+0x1f0(page=0, flags=0, src=0xa, srclen=1,
dst="\", dstlen=260, defchar=0x0, used=(nil))
[/home/aniruddha/downloads/wine-1.1.26/dlls/kernel32/../../include/wine/unicode.h:216]
in kernel32 (0x0032f360)

After install, the game itself starts up, but then immediately hangs up on the
main menu screen. I am currently using Wine 1.1.28 on Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit with
the 185.18.36 NVIDIA drivers. All settings in Wine are defaults (set to WinXP,
with ALSA drivers, with D3D support and no custom libraries). Any help would be
appreciated.

Any help? Anyone?