I really appreciate all of the help you all are trying to give me! Unfortunately I have done ALL of the things on the Adobe website. Nothing seems to work. I am pretty clueless at this point. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I have never had Spyware Blaster on the computer (someone suggested that might have left a kill bit). I think that a friend (my former neighbor who was my computer geek) ran Ad Aware on my computer once to look for malware, but I cannot find anything left on the computer that would relate to Ad Aware. I mention it because I have seen a few references to people having trouble with Flash after installing Ad Aware?
I have some suspicions that Java may be involved... I have had a problem for a long time with not being able to view some flash content (websites telling me I needed to install new version of Flash) but since installing a Java update (or at least I think that's when it started) I can't view websites that I used to get to fine.. those sites are telling me that I don't have Flash (and they never used to).
This is definitately a