I complied (installed?) wine from a tar file (source?) and everything appeared to go smoothly, but Wine, and it's subdirectories are not showing up in my Applications menu... Is there something I'm missing?
Actually, I was missing something. Having the Wine icon showing in the Applications menu of Ubuntu is pointless. Everything I need for launching program files are kept hidden in a ./wine folder of my /home directory. All I had to do was browse to; /home/tsktsknopeeking at mycomputer/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ and create a launcher on the desktop for the specific program I wanted to run. Good to know. Now I have a more recent, stable version of Wine - and I can run my program with it.