what if you create a new user and run wine under this user graphical session? If with this new user wine is ok, try to see if under your "bad" user, you have in .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts these two files: INTERACT.FOT INTERACT.TTF In case remove them and try to login again as this user to see if the problem was corrected. Or compare the fonts directories for these two users. I had this and you can see the thread at <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg00731.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg00731.html</a> and <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg00824.html"> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg00824.html</a> HIH, Gianluca