wine users - Dec 2009 - Wine not working at all... Urgent

hey guys, 
i am  a newbie at linux, 
i have installed fedora 12, updated most of the stuff of it.. (expect policies)
and i install wine using yum..
it installed wine, installed its dependeces..

but now when  i open any exe setup using wine. nothing happens,. nothing at
all....
call i can see is the glass of wine jumping besides the mouse curson..

and when i try to install a software using "install" option in
"wine software uninstaller"
i get a error message..

but the strange thing is. the error messege is filled with
"BOX'es"

4 small boxes nothing else.... no text nothing...

so i unlocked the root, logged in using root. and tried to install software from
it.. same problem.. can anyone please plaese help me... coz i really neeed to
get it working..

PS:- all suggestions are accepted, coz im learning linux, and i am ready to
screw it for learning......

(install wine from yum using SU)

can anyone please please help me.....

James McKenzie wrote:
> Not if the directory is owned by root which may have come from running
`sudo wine "Program.exe"`.
In that case Wine wouldn't run at all, complaining that ~/.wine directory is
not owned by user.

In simple words - don't use root's powers when there is no need.