wine users - May 2012 - Been at it all day ... finally have to ask for help!

Hello,
So installed Fedora15. No problem, wish it had regular menus but the steamline
effect isn't totally terrible.

Heard that Guild Wars1 is playable in linux and so installed wine. It seems that
you aren't supposed to install as root so I removed it as root. I then try
to install anything via yum as non-root and I get the error of needing to be
root. So, I read that you can bypass this by doing a local download and compile
at the user level.

Downloaded the .tar for wine-1.5.2 and tried to ./configure and then make but I
am getting this error "configure: error: Cannot build a 32-bit program, you
need to install 32-bit development libraries.". I have since tried to
download various GCC libraries and have not succeeded.

I actually got GW1 to start under the root installed wine. But, it had no text
or sound on the login screen. Now, it won't even launch the game. Wine
starts up then then the process kills itself.

HELP! I am going backwards! lol

Thanks in advance.

Oh yea my specs:
Dual Boot: Fedora15-2.6.43.2-6.fc15.x86_64 / Win7
Processor: F15 says i3 / Win7 says i5
RAM: 6gb
GPU: ATI HD5740

Also found that disabling the GLSL registry key would probably fix the problem
that I encountered with during the root use installed wine-1.5.2. But my
regustry did not have a Direct3D folder at all so when I created one I
wasn't really sure what to do as there was not a GLSL option to change.

I would like to get Guild Wars1 running as I am in the GW2 beta and hope to run
the new game in linux as well.

Recap:
Installed Fedora15
Updated and installed wine via YUM
Launched GW1 but with no text or sound at login screen
Found no proper way to EDIT the registry as it didn't exist
Created Direct3D and GLSL registry folders but no key to edit
Uninstalled wine as root user for safety reasons
Downloaded wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2 and extracted to winetemp directory
Attempted to ./configure tar file and got 32-bit error
Downloaded various GCC libs but can't get it to ./configure so I can then
make
Can launch wine in normal user acct but process terminates on its own
HELP!

Thanks in advance!