well, I checked again and I looks like I got my install problems mixed
up with another recently "wined" applications. Here is the error
message I got when I wined Win97:

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Font metrics: 99.1% done
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range
for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Value in failed request: 0x1400e9d
Serial number of failed request: 11383
Current serial number in output stream: 11384
Wine failed with return code 1

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Any ideas as to how to go about fixing that one?