wine users - Jan 2010 - Installed new version without uninstalling old- PLEASE HELP!

So I had the stable version on wine on Ubuntu 9.1 and I downloaded IEs 4 linux. 
It said to update wine so I tried via the directions on winehq, but I did not
know that I had to uninstall the old version first.  So now my Ubuntu Software
Center shows ver 1.1.36 but when I try to install it i get the following error:

Package dependencies cannot be resolved.
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are
missing or not installable. Futhermore there could be a conflict between
software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.

How do I fix this ?? I am new to linux ( 2 days using the system) and can't
figure it out.  I don't really want to use IE, but the company I work for
bases their website off of IE, so some functions do not work correctly in
Firefox, so I am SOL when it comes to that and I really don't want to use
any microsoft OS anymore.

Thanks for your help in advance

how did you install each version?

Ubuntu Software Center/Synaptic or compiling source code?

I nstalled the stable version through Ubuntu Software Center and tried the new
version the same way, but thats when I got the error

this must not have happened, because of the packages conflicts. (probably a
bug).

Remove both Wines with the Ubuntu Software to center and reinstall only the
desired one.

I have IE8 on my windows partition... could that be the problem?

your windows partition do not affect the linux.
 try the instructions here:
http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/applications/ie-7-on-linux-with-wine.html

if you find it complicated, you may install playonlinux and use this to install
the ie

OK so I am using playonlinux, because the other way was confusing... when it
gets to the install updates, should I do that?

it is good to install updates, but not necessary.

for the ie instalation, this page may help:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/manual.html

Thanks for all the help

I give up though.  I guess I will have to wait until firefox comes out with IE
tab for linux.

IE 7 keeps locking up when I go to my work site, so it looks like I will have to
keep my XP partition afterall... bummer