My settings....it's nothing too special...Winecfg is set as Windows 2000...that's the only thing that I can think of which is, maybe unusual...? I had, last week, set up DVD Decrypter under Wine, which works wonderfully. The only major thing that I did, which I don't think would have any effect, but who knows. The DVD was in the drive when I turned on the computer...so when I got to my desktop I had the little icon telling me I had the DVD there...Then I went and found
DVDFab, downloaded it, then went to my home folder, double clicked on it installed the program, it opened, recognized the DVD right away, and I clicked to start rip it.
Other than that, it's Ubuntu 7.04, Wine 0.9.39, the latest version of DVDFab HD Decrypter (not the platinum one)...I can't do much except rip the DVD, but that's okay, since I can then burn it with K3b....
It worked with one DVD, I haven't tried it with another DVD yet to see if it still works (could be a fluke I guess that it worked for me...)