wine users - Dec 2010 - Wine fails to install/uninstall windows apps

I have Ubuntu lucid and trying to install Paint Shop Pro 8 on my system. I do
Applications>Wine>Wine configuration>Add application (psp8 ev in my
case). I
choose Windows XP as Windows version and [ok]. Nothing happens.
So I go to the user/.wine dir and I try to install psp by clicking it from
there.
An installer appairs and asks me to remove/repair/modify my previous attempt to
install that damned software. First I try repair, but Wine stops me warning
about a failure in msiexec.exe.
My wine version is 1.2
Thanks in advance

I've tried to get Paint Shop Pro over several versions including 8 to run in
Wine, but I've never gotten anything even remotely close to current to
run... luckily the person I was trying to get it to work for finally found the
new Photoshop Elements and liked it better and it has a native OSX version.

Good luck in trying, but don't get your hopes up.