wine users - Nov 2008 - Medieval 2: Total War Golden Pack (with expansion) problem

Ok I know that this is supposed to be "garbage" on 1.1.7 Wine.
But I have Wine 1.0.1 on Kubuntu 8.10 on "i868" computer.
Also should I try installing only the main game without the expansion pack,
would it work.
Please help as I bought it in conviction it's gold on wine.
Thanks for help

I've got the latest version of Wine 1.1.8 

I Installed Med 2 retail version and it doesn't Run; I've tried
installing the 1.2 Patch and Halfway through Installation I get this error...
0xC0000005 and the installation Terminates.

I've only had Ubuntu a few days and I don't have a clue what to do here.