Could not load Flash Player preference pane

I need to enable Flash on my Mac for some grad school software. But when I went to System Preferences and clicked on the Flash Player icon to check on the settings, this error popped up: "Could not load Flash Player preference pane."

I've also checked my library files and the flash player preference pane seems to be there and should indicate that everything should work just fine.

I've checked around elsewhere on the internet, but I've been unable to find a forum post with a definitive solution.

Attached is a picture of the message and the file in the library.

Thanks in advance for any help that I might receive.