wine users - Oct 2009 - CounterStrike 1.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic freezes on startup

I am trying to run CS on a new machine with the specifications listed in my
signature.  I have posts on ubuntuforums
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1291840), and a bug report
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10487) has been filed but that pertains
to an Intel card.  Has anyone gotten CS running in Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and
if so, can you help?  Thanks!

Update - if you run CS w/o the propritary driver installed, and thus Karmic will
revert back to the open-source Radeon driver, CS will work. Unfortunately
it's very choppy and slow and I was able to get into CS to change video
settings to "Software" and "D3D" but "Software" is
very rough cartoon-like and D3D was just plain slow I re-installed the
proprietary driver hoping "hey I got CS to work and switch to the proper
resolution so maybe that'll help" but it still freezes

So, this doesn't appear to be a Wine issue, but if you have any insight I
welcome your suggestions.