The font problems are related to a texture transparency/blending issue. At least if it is the same font problem I have where the words just disappear. I have hacked around it by setting those textures to 100% opaque for any pixel that has any color but I don't actually know the source of the problem.

Here's the hack if it helps: (The texture format name changed in one of the more recent versions, so pick whichever one it is in your version of wine.) This does have a side-effect of making a couple other things opaque that should be transparent, but it at least makes the text readable.

--- a/dlls/wined3d/surface.c
+++ b/dlls/wined3d/surface.c
@@@ -1249,27 -1384,6 +1384,27 @@@ lock_end
           */
          surface_add_dirty_rect(iface, pRect);

 +#if 1
 +    if ((NULL != This->resource.allocatedMemory) && (NULL == pRect))
 +    {
-           if (This->resource.format_desc->format == WINED3DFMT_X8R8G8B8)
++          if (This->resource.format_desc->format == WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8X8_UNORM)
 +          {
 +                  int i;
 +                  int count = 0;
 +                  for (i=3; iresource.size && i<32768; i+=4)
 +                  {
 +                          if ((This->resource.allocatedMemory[i] == 0) &&
 +                              (((int*)This->resource.allocatedMemory)[i/4] != 0))
 +                          {
 +                                  This->resource.allocatedMemory[i] = 0xff;
 +                                  count++;
 +                          }
 +                  }
 +
 +                  //FIXME("Updated %d pixels in surface %p (%d bytes).\n", count, This, This->resource.size);
 +          }
 +    }
 +#endif
          /** Dirtify Container if needed */
          if (SUCCEEDED(IWineD3DSurface_GetContainer(iface, &IID_IWineD3DBaseTexture, (void **)&pBaseTexture))) {
              TRACE("Making container dirty\n");