Wine-ing About Everything

So, the past few weeks of using Wine was interesting to say the least.  I had not realized how big this post was going to be until it was all done, so I'm putting this all after the jump!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ubuntu, MultiArch, and Wine

I've been attempting to install Street Racing Syndicate using Wine which should have been relatively straightforward to do, I reckon.  Running the game however, I am constantly treated with a crash and I suspect it is caused by this error dump.

(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmplex.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmplex.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpeg2enc.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpeg2enc.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(wine:3543): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstfaac.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstfaac.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

This got me researching into Ubuntu's state of multiarch support, figuring out that packages like 

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:i386 and python-gst0.10:i386 were conspicuously missing even though I had installed ia32-libs.  As it turns out, I have conflicting library packages and Ubuntu hasn't really fixed this particular issue.  Sad to say that it looks like I will have to dig up ole Vista to play this one.