wine users - Mar 2009 - excel 2000: "File Error data may have been lost"

I am using Excel 2000 Standard with wine-1.1.16 on Centos5, and get several
bugs:

First, it wouldn't open my files directly, but open a blank worksheet, so
that I have to open it manually. I can live with that.

Second, I get a message saying: "File Error, data may have been lost",
when I open my file, after enabling the macros. The file will open anyway. The
only missing data I found was
the hyperlinks.

Third: I cannot install any Add-in. I get the following message: "Microsoft
Excel can't run this add-in. Microsoft cannot install the necessary files
due to Windows Installer error 1601. ERROR-INSTALL-SERVICE-FAILURE".

Fourth: I cannot paste anything from Firefox. I get a simple message "Excel
cannot paste the data"...

Last but not least, I cannot save. I get the message :"The disk is
full", which is obviously completely false, wouldn't mention it
otherwise...

Anyone can help?

Saving problem resolved: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13822

(Sorry I didn't found this earlier...)

The other bugs remain...

grriton wrote:
> Thanks but unfortunately the problem is a bit different.
> It is not that I want Linux to open my file with excel by default, but that
when I chose to open it with excel (right click -> open with microsoft
excel), excel will launch with a blank page, and then I have to do file ->
open.
> 
> Thanks anyway.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12380

Seems to be the solution... I will test tomorrow and let you know.

Thanks a lot.

Sorry it took me a while to come back to you guys...
It works perfectly.

Now if anyone has any idea how to get the add-ins to be installed and how to get
the hyperlinks to work, that would be very helpful.

Thanks.