wine users - Mar 2008 - Can't get Steam to install

Hello,

I have just installed Wine on Ubuntu 7.10 (x86).  I have also managed to get
hold of and install gecko.  However, when I try to install Steam with
Code:
"wine start SteamInstall.msi" 

it comes up with several errors in terminal then a popup box saying
"Installation ended prematurely because of an error".

Can anyone help me please?

Notes - I am in the correct directory the one with SteamInstall.msi in it) when
i try installing it.

The following is the messages in the terminal from when I type wine start
steaminstall.msi
> 
> wine start SteamInstall.msi
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32"
is not accessible.
> fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32"
is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32"
is not accessible.
> thomas at TMinter:~/Desktop$ Warning: the specified System directory
L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
> err:msi:copy_package_to_temp failed to copy package
L"Z:\\home\\thomas\\Desktop\\SteamInstall.msi"
> fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"thomas" (nil) 0x34f7fc
(nil) 0x34f800 0x34f7f4 - stub
> fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"thomas" 0x127538
0x34f7fc 0x12b8b8 0x34f800 0x34f7f4 - stub
> err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"WiseStartup"
returned 1627
> err:msi:remove_tracked_tempfiles failed to delete
L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi5e2f.tmp"
> err:msi:remove_tracked_tempfiles failed to delete
L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi276.tmp"
> 
>

Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is
 not accessible.
This one is quite strange... Did you change anything to the rights you have on
this directory ?
Try using a new ~/.wine directory if you can. This will blow up every apps you
installed before, so this might not be an option.

Please, do not tell me that your wine's C: drive is linked to a real windows
one.

       
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I haven't done anything with the rights to the folders.

How would I go about using a new .wine dir?  Just re-install Wine?

*this is the first thing I have tried to get working with wine so won't
loose anything

I installed wine through the Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 7.10 (x86).

I installed Gecko because it is suppose to be needed to install steam as stated
here
("http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1554")