Using RH9 with latest patches including kernel update. Xfree86 ver 4.3.
Installed the wine binary from sourceforge (RedHat rpm section): wine-20031016-1rh9winehq-athlon.rpm

When opening Half-Life hl1110.exe full patch I get:

"Could not load the DLL library
C:\Windows\System\kernel32.dll Bad EXE format for"

Strangely the msg ends here without ending the sentence.
Here is my entire wine config file using grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.' in terminal.

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Serial" = "87654321"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"
[Drive C]
"Path" = "%HOME%/.wine/c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
[Drive E]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive F]
"Path" = "%HOME%"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive Z]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\"
"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
# [wineconf]
[Version]
[DllOverrides]
"krnl386" = "builtin"
"kernel32" = "builtin"
"oleaut32" = "builtin"
"ole32" = "builtin"
"commdlg" = "builtin"
"comdlg32" = "builtin"
"ddraw" = "builtin"
"dinput" = "builtin"
"dsound" = "builtin"
"shell" = "builtin"
"shell32" = "builtin"
"shfolder" = "builtin"
"shlwapi" = "builtin"
"shdocvw" = "builtin"
"system" = "builtin"
"toolhelp" = "builtin"
"advapi32" = "builtin"
"msvcrt" = "builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "builtin"
"msi" = "builtin"
"*notepad.exe" = "native, builtin"
"C:\\windows\\regedit.exe" = "native, builtin"
"*" = "builtin, native"
[x11drv]
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
"ScreenDepth" = "16"
"Managed" = "N"
"Desktop" = "1024x768"
"UseDGA" = "N"
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
"UseXRandR" = "Y"
"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
"DXGrab" = "Y"
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
"Synchronous" = "N"
[fonts]
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
[FontDirs]
"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"
[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"
[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
[ppdev]
[spooler]
"FILE:" = "tmp.ps"
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
[ports]
[Debug]
[registry]
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
[Tweak.Layout]
"WineLook" = "Win95"
[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"
[afmdirs]
"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" ; default for most common configurations
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"
[dsound]
[Network]
[AppDefaults\\_INS0432._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS0466._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS0576._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS5176._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\dcom98.exe\\DllOverrides]
"ole32" = "native"
[AppDefaults\\dcom95.exe\\DllOverrides]
"ole32" = "native"
# [/wineconf]


Being a wine newbie I appreciate if anyone could point out to me which config settings are wrong. I have my doubts about the DllOverrides section which I changed to "builtin" for all dlls cus I have the impression that is safer - pls correct me if I'm wrong. Also note that I am able to run notepad and my Half-Life CD setup.exe with no problems. Please demand additional info if required.
Thanks!