wine users - Mar 2009 - Installation service Error

I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot find
a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive and
error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed. This
has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1. This
error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm
clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:22:53 -0500
"yoman82" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot
find a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive
and error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed.
This has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1.
This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm
clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
> 
Read the Wine FAQ and delete or move your Wine prefix.

yoman82 wrote:
> This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command.
This is wrong. Uninstalling Wine doesn't touch it's configuration. You
need to run this instead:

Code:
rm -rf ~/.wine


Then verify directory was really removed:

Code:
ls -la ~/.wine


If it's still there, then use sudo:

Code:
sudo rm -rf ~/.wine


And keep in mind to NEVER EVER use sudo/su to run Wine with.

Thank you so much. I thought the --purge option had cleared the config files.
Thanks.