http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5285
------- Additional Comments From vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2006-24-05 15:57 ------- You do not need IE to install Office 2000. It installed just fine as-is with wine-0.9.9 - wine-0.9.10 (don't remember which one I used).
BTW please upgrade to wine-0.9.14. It fixes few known regressions related to installers. But it might not fix all of them.
And one more thing, Wine does not directly support installation of IE.
I don't think it would be feasible to create special overrides for GetFileVersionInfo. Wine needs to keep installers from wanting to install any native dlls. This can be archived only by having the latest version possible.