wine users - Sep 2010 - mountmgr doesn't recognize d:: link to /dev/sr0

I am a Fedora 13 user, so HAL automounts CDROMs and DVDROMs on
/media/<LABEL> (this node is also dynamically created and removed from the
/media/ directory as needed).

II would like to assign a device drive letter to /dev/sr0 to reference any CD or
DVD when inserted (e.g. d:: --> /dev/sr0), instead of having to manually
create a symlink to the dynamically created /media/<LABEL> directory each
time I load a DVD or CD. As I understand it, this should work.

My problem is that mountmgr doesn't seem to "see" this dosdevices
softlink, and I'm not sure why. Based on the many similar posts I found when
searching with Google and with the forum search tool, I have formulated the
following hypotheses:

1) perhaps I don't have permission to the device due to file permissions,
policykit policy, and/or selinux.
(I don't know how to deal with policykit, but I think I have ruled out
selinux and device file permissions).

2) WINE requires an fstab entry for mountmgr to recognize a drive when it is
mounted (?)
 (I have tried creating a permanent mount point at /mnt/dvd and an fstab entry.
However, after I successfully applied:
#> sudo mount /mnt/dvd
the drive still did not appear in winecfg or in DVDFab). 

3) My application needs to be configured to use ASPI to access the hardware
directly.
(I configured DVDFab to use ASPI, but that did not make it "see" the
drive).

4) There is some bug in DVDFab, wine, mountmgr, and/or winecfg

Can anybody help me with this? Or if this has been answered somewhere else, can
I get a pointer?  Thanks in advance...

So let me ask a couple of different questions.

Can anybody confirm either that they can reproduce the issue on Fedora or some
other distro, or that links to hardware devices are recognized by winecfg or by
some windows application on their Fedora box?

Or alternately, does anyone have an opinion on whether this is a wine problem or
a Fedora problem? Should I bring it up on the developers' forum?