I can't run programs

Well, I got wine on it, I double click on my program & in the taskbar it says
Stating Wine
then it dissapears and no programs come up

Try running it from console and post the output:

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wine programname.exe

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fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0x7f63f314,25222,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x7babf800), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x7bc80368)->(0x7bc8b680, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x7bc80368)->(0x7bcb0bc0, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.

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Then It Froze

i found the best thing to do is first run

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wine

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by itself. this creates the .wine/drive_c directories. depending on the program you will need to install it. run:

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wine /pathtoinstall/SetupFile.exe

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it can't be run from the windows partition. also try Frank's Corner for better explanations on using wine.

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[john@localhost ~]$ wine
Wine 20050628
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]  Run the specified program
      wine --help                  Display this help and exit
      wine --version                Output version information and exit
[john@localhost ~]$ wine /home/john/madness/madness.exe
fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0x7f63f314,25222,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x7babf800), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x7bc80370)->(0x7bc8b688, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x7bc80370)->(0x7bcb0bb8, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.

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hmm... maybe it is not compatible. not everything works in wine unfortunately. even worse is that wine experts are hard to find...

oh yeah, you only need to use the wine command by itself the first time so that wine sets everything up. after that it's all good. sort of...