You using an absolutely ancient version of MAME. 0.90 was the first release of *2005*
This makes it pretty tricky to give current advice. I don't believe 0.90 used any of the cheat XML stuff, that's more recent, by using such an old version you're going to find people giving you incorrect advice. Some have also found builds of that period to be rather unstable on modern hardware.
Be warned tho, newer versions are more demanding, and you'll find a lot more games don't work with the existing ROMs you have, because newer versions require additional files to emulate the platforms more accurately.
MAME32 became MAMEUI in that period (to avoid confusion because there were 32 and 64-bit builds)
If you do want to try newer versions be warned, for the past 6 months MAMEUI has however been very buggy, and last week I think it's fair to say MAMEUI died completely. The last remaining shreds of it were ripped out of the MESS source repository, who were the only guys providing life support for it anyway. Going forward you'd be better accustoming yourself with the command-line version and a frontend. QMC2 seems to be the one most people are recommending. There is also IVPlay, which is a minimalistic frontend from the people who did MAME32/MAMEUI.