Comment 13 for bug 296028

My girlfriend also encountered this bug in AisleRiot Solitaire with 9.10. With 10.04 this is unfortunately still true:

$ aptitude show aisleriot
Paket: aisleriot
Zustand: entpackt
Automatisch installiert: nein
Version: 1:2.29.6-0ubuntu1

I think the workaround moli posted could be a bit more elaborate:
mv aisleriot aisleriot-bin
have molis schellscript named aisleriot and call aisleriot-bin from there after resetting the configuration.

If ubuntu-devs won't or can't fix the bug in aisleriot then please implement the workaround as the current behaviour strikes nasty on any ubuntu novice.