totem not running

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

I have run totem for six months without a hitch.

Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete 
gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, 
.nautilus, .metacity. This cured my windows manager problem.

However now totem will not run. I tried to launch a .wmv file and 
nothing happened. I then killed the totem process, since not even a 
window had appeared. I got this error in .xsession-errors:


wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv8ds32.ax, 
/usr/lib/win32/wmv8ds32.ax, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv8ds32.ax
Warning: DS_Filter() could not open DirectShow DLL.  (DLL=wmv8ds32.ax, 
r=0x0)
Failed to create DirectShow filter
External func OLEAUT32.dll:8
Creating new registry
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0   size:230400  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU   
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)



Now even without the .wmv file as a parameter, totem will not launch 
properly and it only gets as far as creating a blank window frame.

Any totem experts out there?

Thanks
Adam