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The upgrade also updated my Wine installation to 0.9.5. At first, it caused Lotus Notes to crash with the following error (if launched from a terminal):

colin@mirkwood ~ $ wine "c:\lotus\notes6\nlnotes.exe"
wine: Call from 0x55a1e7c0 to unimplemented function usp10.dll.ScriptCacheGetHeight, aborting
ERROR (0): NetUserEnum failed: err=5 - (131) Negative seek
Host Name       : mirkwood
User Name       : colin
Date            : Sat Jan 28 19:17:04 2006
Windows Dir     : c:\windows
Arguments       : "C:\lotus\notes6\nsd.exe" -dumpandkill -termstatus 1
OSVersion       : Windows 98 4.10 (Build 67766446), PlatID=1,  A  (1 Processor)

The usp10.dll file is the culprit. I found this Howto which advised deleting the file /usr/lib/wine/usp10.dll.so (on my AMD64 machine that's actually /usr/lib32/wine). I did that, and it works fine again. I notice that the 'missing cursor' from my last install has been fixed, as well.

Aside: it seems that I can't copy & paste text from Firefox into Notes (a text field, obviously) - it gives me an error message "Only text can be pasted into this type of field." Pasting from the URL bar works, and pasting from other apps like the console and gedit works, so what I do is paste into a gedit text document and then c&p into Notes from there. Bit of a schlep for blogging, but not the end of the world.