wine users - Apr 2011 - PSE5 actions in effects folder loosing alphabetical sort

Distro: Archlinux 2.6.38  
Wine version: 1.3.17 
(The system is fully updated)


Code:
Affected folder: 
~/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo
Creations/special effects/photo effects/CoffeShop Actions




Code:
Unaffected folders:
~/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo
Creations/special effects/photo effects/frames

~/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo
Creations/special effects/photo effects/image effects




Code:
Equivalent Window XP path of affected folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop
Elements\5.0\Photo Creations\special effects\photo effects\CoffeeShop Actions



Problem:
I am trying to migrate my wife's PC to Linux and doing that requires she
retain access to PSE5 (Photoshop Elements 5) so using another program, like
GIMP, is unfortunately not an option.  PSE5 installed and starts flawlessly and
all the generic actions that came preinstalled with it seem to be fine.  However
I have a few folders with custom actions that are ?loosing? the alphabetical
sort when Photoshop builds the Artwork and actions databases when PSE5 is
started.  If I use the file manager to browse to the folder everything looks as
it should.  However when PSE5 starts and we use the Artwork pallete to navigate
to the Photo Effects folder the actions are displayed in jumbled order and the
thumbnail images are in an even different order so nothing is sorted and nothing
matches.

I've checked the thumbs.psd stack and the images are properly ordered
alphabetically from bottom to top.  I tried changing the order of  6 of the
images in the stack to match the order the actions in the pallete window and
that worked on those I tested to get the images to match the actions, however
the order of the actions in the pallette window is still wonky.  I also tried
renaming the action files to get rid of spaces, exchange the underscore ?_? for
spaces, remove extra words/letters and though sometimes the display order would
change it sill wouldn't be alphabetical as expected.  I've also tried
multiple copy/pastes of the folder and even just the files within as well as
multiple deletes and rebuilds of the Media and Thumbs databases.

Please note this all works as expected if I boot into XP so I know all the files
are capable of functioning as intended.  Also note there are numerous other
custom actions in various other paths that are displayed in alphabetical order
as expected so it's not a global problem with actions. I'm thinking the
problem is in how PSE is building the MediaDatabase.db3 and ThumbDatabase.db3
files when it is launched but why these specific actions are affected is what
I'm stumped on.  Since I know this is occuring in at least one other folder
I am hoping there is a single fix to the problem.


Here are a few of the 23 total actions in the affected folder and where they
fall in the displayed order.  As I said above I've tried renaming them in
various ways but and while it will change the order it never fixes it to be
correct, alphabetically.  I can provide a few more, or even the full list if
needed but this short list will at least highlight the problem.

CoffeeShop Baby PowderRoom.atn  - should be 1st but is displayed 6th
CoffeeShop Moody Pop.atn   - should be 10th but is displayed 1st
CoffeeShop Vintage Blush.atn ? should be 20th but is displayed 5th
CoffeeShop Eye Bright.atn ? should be 5th but is displayed 11th.



Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated,



The part that just adds insult to injury in all this is that PSE5 normally takes
2-4 minutes to launch when booted into XP Home but will launch in about 30-45
seconds using WINE.  This PC is running a C2D 6420 @ 3.2Ghz with 4Gb of RAM
(4x1Gb of DDR2 800) so it's shouldn't be a hardware issue that's
causing the slow load time in XP.

XP low performance is simple to answer.   XP memory management system is slow. 
Linux memory management is faster that much faster in fact that the wrappers in
wine to still leave Linux way ahead.   Also Linux disk IO is faster in most
cases enough that even with wine operation wrappers its still ahead of XP.  
Lets just for niceness say XP is not the best built program.

Where Wine go splat is particular areas of graphical support are slow due to
complex mapping to make X11 happy taking the data and there are a lot of Linux
video card drivers that are slower than their windows relations.   Basically if
wine did not have that issue it would run rings around windows in most cases.

I will tell you 1 other programs you should added to your image altering kit.  
http://www.digikam.org/ .

digikam is deceptive.   Reads like a basic album solution until you get to what
editing features it directly supports include Template Superimpose.   I have
found people who were quite heavy Photoshop uses find digikam quite a useful
tool.  So reducing how much they do in Photoshop.  For the simple reason for a
lot of alterations digikam is faster.  digikam is one of the programs that is
great on everything bar windows.

When run from terminal is wine complaining about anything when that directory is
accessed.   Problem I have this is the first time I have heard of a bug anything
like this.

So the action files still work even that they are in the wrong order?

The wine install with them would be on ext3 or ext4.  Some strange things have
been known to happen on NTFS and sometimes with directories copies from NTFS to
Linux.

Also ls -al from the command line on that directory listing normally?