wine users - Feb 2012 - Wow patch issue

Mepis 11, 9600GT, 3GB RAM, Wine 1.3.37.

I'm trying to download the patch that came out Tuesday. All I get is the WOW
badge with "Launcher connecting to Patch Server ..." Except that
it's not. The latest entries in the 'Launcher.log' is:

# System started at 2012-02-03 02:04:40.2105
# system: konamepis
#-----------------------------------------------------------
02:04:40.2112 Launcher version 4.2.1.2617
02:04:40.2173 World of Warcraft version 4.3.0.15050
02:04:40.2808 Launcher failed to fix registry permissions for key 'World of
Warcraft'.
02:04:40.3348 Found incorrect GamePath registry key entry for World of Warcraft
('C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe').
02:04:40.3349 Fixed incorrect GamePath registry key entry for World of Warcraft
(now 'C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.patch.exe').

Quite some time ago there was a permission issue, but I thought we were past
that. Does anyone have any idea what this one is about and what I should do
about it?

This turned out to be something of a red herring. I found a post on
Blizzard's Support site that said to start problem patching by deleting or
moving the following directories: WTF, Cache, and Interface. I moved them.
Starting the Launcher.exe seems to have accomplished its job before it went
South again (won't restart).

Consider this issue solved.