[newbie] Wine & VMWare

[Al]

Greetings!

I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a
Mandrake 7.1.

I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these
but no joy.

I only wish to run MSMoney :-)

Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there
any Linux programs like MSMoney?

Any help or link is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.