Tell me, can you install a Windows application manually, using the DOS terminal, or CMD.EXE by copying and then decompressing each of the files one at a time, placing it in the right directory, on the C:/> drive? Even if you can, I have done this, just for a simple screen saver, it took all afternoon! OK Codeweavers writes little script files to make this part relatively painless, but their scripting isn't free, or even cheap. What most people do is set their machine to dual boot, it lives a Schizophrenic existence, it runs Windows to install applications, and then after a reboot back to Linux, to test and run the Windows application under Wine. If they're real, real lucky, it works well enough to be usable. They wouldn't dream of getting all their Windows applications to work this way, rather they hope to get that one or two, absolute must have programs to work. You know how modern applications just love to grab updates off the internet automatically? You don't really expect this to actually work do you? All I can say is, you'd better have those installs you've worked so hard for, backed up on burned CD-Rom somewhere, as well as instructions you wrote on how you made it work, so you can recover from the auto-update that's sure to happen as soon as you turn your back.