how to set a working file associations with PlayOnLinux?

Preface: This is a howto, not a question.

Today, after beating my brains out trying to install Office 2007 with Wine 1.4 in Precise, I ended up resorting to using PlayOnLinux. What I learned about PlayOnLinux is that it makes installing things a dream, but it makes the general usability of those things an absolute nightmare.

I've found an strange issue: Everytime I open and save a microsoft office document file (docx, pptx or xlsx) with my Office 2010 tools instaled on PlayOnLinux, the system automatically creates a new file as a .Ink shortcut in the folder where the file exists.

Example, if the document is in /home/user/documents/myfile.docx it will create in the same directory: myfile.docx.ink myfile.docx (2).i

PlayOnLinux 3.8.3 has been released, it was a silent release and no changelog has been provided by the PlayOnLinux team.

When a changlog becomes available I will post it here.

I installed Microsoft Office through Playonlinux and i want to add a spell checker for my language and the installer is a .msi file "http://stava.fo/download/stavarin_2_1.msi" i have tried running the .msi file with wine but i'm getting this error

"The program msiexec.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.

PlayOnLinux installs the applications in separate virtual drives. Each virtual drive represents a different windows machine. I have configured PlayOnLinux on my laptop and installed several programs in it.

These programs go in the hidden .PlayOnLinux directory in home.

My .PlayOnLinux directory is about 12 GB in size.

Hello everybody!

PlayOnLinux 3.8 is now out!

Just A Quick Announcement for two Applications that are not installable through the software manager at this time.

They are both working in Opensuse 11.2. Vmware player 3 installed and played a 7 vm. Playonlinux is a little tougher to get going but it works great once you have its dependencies installed.

Here is a link to the playonlinux 3.7.2 howto for 11.2.

PlayOnLinux does not find the virtual CD-ROM it creates. If I chose "/media/cdrom", or "OFFICE14", or even "/media", PlayOnLinux continues to display the error "Cannot find cdrom". It has no idea where it is mounted. Please help.

I know this question comes up frequently. I've been reading forums and working on it for three days now, with little to no success. Time to bring in the experts.

I've tried this: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-...f_Legends.html

...7 times, changing variables based on other forum suggestions. It ran once on Win XP, Wine v1.5.22 . but I couldn't launch it from the PlayonLinux GUI.