Flash Player wont work!

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Flash Player wont work!

Forum,
Here's the story:
2 days ago I viewed a Flash site (98.9 The Rock) and everything worked fine. I viewed a different page YouTube to view videos. It said I needed the Flash player. Yet the Flash site 98.9 the rock worked fine. So I downloaded the new Flash player because I thought it might of needed the most current version. I downloaded it from this page. Macromeda.com.shockwave
I downloaded it and tried to install it. While it was installing it would stop when the installed looked as if it were finished. I had to force quit the installer. Tried over and over. Couldn't get the thing to install!
I go back to the 98.9 the rock page and it says I need the Flash player. It directs me to this link. Shockwave
I download that and it installs fine.

Now I'm all screwed up and I can't view either the videos on YouTube or the page on 98.9 The Rock's radio station.
What is wrong? I don't know what to do.
Any suggestions, links, anything, would be greatly appricated.
Thanks in advance.
Let me know if I need to be more clear.
BP

Quad 2.5 GHz PowerMac G5 4 RAM with 2 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, Mac OS X (10.4.5), PowerBook G4 17inch 2GB RAM 120GB HD, FCS To-date, Logickeyboard For FCP

Posted on Mar 25, 2006 6:15 PM

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scapesuiter

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Mar 25, 2006 8:16 PM in response to Final Cut Pro

BP, the Flash Player should be downloaded from here. Before you do install it, trash the "Flash Player.plugin" located in Mac OS X hard disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. Also trash "flashplayer.xpt". After you install it, repair disk permissions and restart the computer. Then make sure that in the QuickTime System Preferences that QuickTime is deselected to handle swf files (Flash media in Miscellaneous MIME Settings...)

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chichi2

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Mar 25, 2006 8:50 PM in response to Final Cut Pro

help...once i have installed the flash player 8 osx.app...my computer takes me back the macomedia website where I downloaded the promgram. how come the player will not load?

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Final Cut Pro Author

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Mar 26, 2006 9:17 AM in response to scapesuiter

Scapesuiter,
That still didn't work, any other suggestions.
Thanks for all your help.
BP

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Tom_31

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Mar 28, 2006 10:25 AM in response to chichi2

Hi chichi2. Do you, by any chance, own an Intel based Mac? If that is the case check out the support article from Macromedia linked below and try out changing the Flash.plugin. It worked for me, hope it does for you too.

MacroMedia

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scapesuiter

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Mar 28, 2006 8:42 AM in response to chichi2

chichi2, once it is installed correctly, it will take you to a Macromedia page that confirms that you installed it correctly, if that's what you mean.

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Final Cut Pro Author

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Mar 28, 2006 2:41 PM in response to Tom_31

I don't have an Intel Mac. Regular iMac G5 with no iSight camera.

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scapesuiter

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Mar 28, 2006 3:57 PM in response to Final Cut Pro

BP, other problems would arise if you have more than one version of the Flash Player.plugin installed in Mac OS X disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/

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Final Cut Pro Author

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Mar 29, 2006 3:04 PM in response to scapesuiter

I deleted them all, tried reinstalling and tried once again after repairing permissions.

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Dicko

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Mar 30, 2006 12:08 PM in response to Final Cut Pro

Dear all,
I had this problem as well awhile ago, all I did was to remove something like the ShockWave PPC director icon from my hard disk - library - internet plugins.
I hope this helps you
mimac400se

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andyBall_uk

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Mar 30, 2006 10:51 PM in response to Final Cut Pro

Hi

look at Safari-Help-Installed Plug-ins - does the flash plug-in show up there? just once? - could you copy/post the entry(s) for flash & shockwave here?.

Also look at your console & system logs after quitting/restarting safari & attempting to view those problem webpages - occasionally there's an entry there that helps identify the difficulty. If there is something - you might find this thread useful - esp the bit about rolling back QT

Finally ( for now ); even on single -user machines some people have found that /home/library/internet plug-ins/ folder has plug-ins inside it. Yours may well be empty, but if not - move the files somewhere else for now & quit/restart safari.

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Final Cut Pro Author

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Mar 31, 2006 1:40 PM in response to Dicko

Thanks everyone's help...
I had two different threads on QuickTime and Flash. I saw some of you guys on my other thread. Thanks for all of your help.
I don't know how this happened, but the Enable Plug-ins was unchecked.
Thanks

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