wine users - Feb 2009 - Games Crash to Desktop after initial splash screen is shown

I have wine 1.0 installed. On my Dell dimension b110. I have installed
Civilization 3 and when I attempt to run it, I see the civ3 splash screen and it
crashes to desktop. Likewise with CityofHeroes.  I get the initial splash screen
and the game crashes to desktop. Today I tried running Civ via terminal and I
got : "jennifer at SuperCoolness:~$ wine start civ3.exe
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the
specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found

jennifer at SuperCoolness:~$"

I would appreciate all help I can get. Thank you. Sincerely, Gibsongirl

gibsongirl wrote:
> wine start civ3.exe
> fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
> Application could not be started, or no application associated with the
specified file.
> ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found
Looks like your Wine configuration is busted. Remove/rename ~/.wine directory
and try again.