wine users - Sep 2011 - Wine Gecko download problems on Kubuntu 10.10 w/Wine 1.3.28

I can't seem to get wine to recognize my installation of Wine Gecko 1.3 at
all.  I have the Wine PPA added to my sources already and have installed the
'wine1.3-gecko' package using Synaptic (personal preference over
Kpackagekit or Muon) along with of course the actual wine 1.3 package and the
symbol font replacement package for 1.3.  I have also tried the 'manual
install' listed on the main gecko page at http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko but
it still won't work.  I have even tried reinstalling all of the related
packages using Synaptic but still no success.  I tried to use winetricks at one
point to install Internet Explorer and am wondering if this may be the source of
my problem (the install failed miserably).  If this is the case how can I clean
it up?  I'd rather not have to trash my current wine configuration if
possible, I have several programs installed that I had to manually install and
several more that are just a real pain to install and reconfigure to get working
under wine.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,
Edwin Barton (edwinbarton)

P.S. I should also point out that running:

Code:
wine iexplore.exe http://winehq.org


opens up Wine Internet Explorer but all I get is a blank window where a webpage
should be displayed, I don't get a prompt to install gecko like many people
have reported should be happening, just a blank window and no web pages will
load at all in it (tried google, yahoo, and a few others all with no luck, no
error message displayed in window, just no web page at all).

edwinbarton wrote:
>  I tried to use winetricks at one point to install Internet Explorer and am
wondering if this may be the source of my problem (the install failed
miserably).  If this is the case how can I clean it up?
Run winecfg, go to the libraries tab, remove all overrides.