wine users - Dec 2011 - wine gui problems on unity

After 2 whole days of Ubuntu experience, could be Unity, could be Wine, so my
questions:

- When I put a windows application cd in my drive, I see it in Launcher, and can
open it and see the folders and files. However, I cannot browse to it from my
Wine Configuration "Add Application" window. Choosing "My
Computer" gives C: and Z: drives, no evidence of the cd drive. How do I
find my cd drive to add the application?

- When I right click on one of the above files and folders, and attempt to copy
it to a new folder on my desktop, all the copied folders and files are blank,
why?

- When I double click on the "setup.exe" in said windows application,
it gives me a "blocked: wine start /unix" error message. How should I
install this application?

These are very old Mad Magazine archives requiring Windows 95/98 or windows NT.

Running 11.10 and wine1.2 1.2.3-0ubuntu1

Thank you

volare wrote:
> 
> - When I put a windows application cd in my drive, I see it in Launcher,
and can open it and see the folders and files. However, I cannot browse to it
from my Wine Configuration "Add Application" window. Choosing "My
Computer" gives C: and Z: drives, no evidence of the cd drive. How do I
find my cd drive to add the application?
Normally you don't add applications to winecfg until after you've
installed them.

To map a cd drive, open winecfg with a cd mounted, go to the drives tab, and
click Autodetect. Select the cd drive from the list, click Show Advanced and
make sure it is mapped as a cd-rom, then click OK.

> 
> - When I right click on one of the above files and folders, and attempt to
copy it to a new folder on my desktop, all the copied folders and files are
blank, why?
Ask on the Ubuntu forum. This has nothing to do with Wine.
> 
> - When I double click on the "setup.exe" in said windows
application, it gives me a "blocked: wine start /unix" error message.
How should I install this application?
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f3515230c198befe0279d32c448d9c8da63be66f

> 
> Running 11.10 and wine1.2 1.2.3-0ubuntu1
> 
That version of Wine is old; the latest release is 1.3.35.