wine users - Nov 2008 - i cannot get wine to work

i use wine to play world of warcraft and had it running fine untill the new
expansion came out, i have managed to install it but if i know try to run
anything with wine it just says "starting [the programs name]" and
then nothing will happen i am running ubuntu 8.04  can anyone help me and tell
me what i should do?

thx in advance,
vertox