Dave, thanks a lot for your hints, I discovered a couple of
gdiplus.dll's on my XP installation, took the youngest and put it in my
.wine/.../system32 folder, adjusted the winecfg - and unfortunately
nothing changed so far...
Crypto, just tried vsthost and it seems to do what it should do *lol* -
so I've got a solution so far.
thanks a lot guys :-)
Susanne