wine users - Sep 2010 - Desktop Notifications/popups = steam apps hard freeze?

I'm not sure if this is a problem resulting from my PlayOnLinux app for
handling the wine based applications. However whenever I get a popup or
notification from my Ubuntu desktop it causes the Steam application to hard
freeze, graphically only though.
Seeing as I then have to hit '`' and then quit (I have only valve based
games)

I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced this problem and has a possible
fix for it?

(steam community is disabled, games run great until a popup from
skype/mediaplayer/pidgin/anything ruins it beyond exiting wine altogether)

RemiParks wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a problem resulting from my PlayOnLinux app for
handling the wine based applications.
PlayOnLinux is not supported here. 
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-aeffd8e1fe7702219fcf87f97834edc926cb1235