I recently installed wine onto my machine from the downloaded mandrake 8.2 disks. Whenever i try to install anything, the install shield bar goes up to 99% then stops. When i run it from a terminal, i get teh following:

err:mmsys:MMDRV_InitHardcoded You didn't setup properly the config file for the
Wine multimedia modules.
Will use the hard-coded setup, but this will disappear soon.
Please add a WinMM section to your Wine config file.
err:midi:OSS_MidiInit ioctl on midi info for device 0 failed.
fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_BITMAP_SelectObject stub
fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_BITMAP_SelectObject stub
fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_BITMAP_SelectObject stub
err:mmsys:MMDRV_InitHardcoded You didn't setup properly the config file for the
Wine multimedia modules.
Will use the hard-coded setup, but this will disappear soon.
Please add a WinMM section to your Wine config file.
err:midi:OSS_MidiInit ioctl on midi info for device 0 failed.
wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
Resource id in failed request: 0x3a00004
Serial number of failed request: 227
Current serial number in output stream: 230
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x40110da8 "syslevel.c: Win16Mutex" wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) fs=045f

what would i have to do to get this to work?
i am trying to convert 100% to linux, but have a long way to go and have much to learn. In other words, i'm just a noob. :-}
thanks much

For starters, try downloading the wine configuration script, and using it to create a full WINE config file. The script features a nice GUI, and is very eay to use. You can get it from www.winehq.com. Apparently your multimedia settings are messed up.

Also keep in mind that WINE is more like ALPHA software, so don't expect it to work 100% of the time.