wine users - Apr 2011 - Seeking help with Money 2000: access to internet

I am fairly new to Linux and have set up a laptop with the default installation
of Ubuntu 10.10. I have installed Wine 1.2.2 and have used it to install some
old Windows programs that I don't want to be without. Generally they work
fine and I am very pleased.

However I have one problem with Money 2000: it crashes when I ask it to connect
to the internet in order to update the prices of stocks and shares. This is
recorded as a known 'bug' on the Wine AppDB. I have read the bug report
but I cannot understand it since I don't have a technical background.

My simple question is, is it possible to get Money 2000 to access the internet?
Has anyone managed it? I see from the notes on Money 2004 (in the AppDB) that
someone has managed to get that version working, but they way they installed it
seems very complex and I don't fully understand it.

Any help you can give will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance
John

amanchesterman wrote:
> I have installed Wine 1.2.2 
Start by upgrading to the latest development release to see if that fixes it.

@ dimesio: Thanks for your reply and apologies for the delay in responding. (It
was my wife's birthday yesterday and we were rather busy!) I have another
laptop with Windows XP installed (on which Money runs happily) and I have looked
on there and found several versions of oleaut32.dll, they seem to be from
different Windows updates over the years. The oldest is dated November 1999 so I
am inclined to try that.

Your post says that I need to 'copy it ... and then set the override
manually'. Can you tell me where I should copy it to on my Linux machine?
When you say 'set the override', do you mean setting it in the Wine
configuration dialogue?

@ James McKenzie: Thanks for your reply. However as you see I am inclined to try
another version of the .dll file first, since this is already a documented bug.
If that doesn't work I will come back to your suggestion.

Thanks to you both for your help.
John