The problem:
A coworker and myself are unable to view Flash animations or videos and we are
also unable to install Flash 8 or 9 or 7.

We previously had Flash 8 Player installed and working. As of the past two
days or so - Flash has disappeared from our systems and we cannot install it.
The common factor that we share is that we both have Windows XP Pro SP2 with IE
6 and Windows Media Player 10 and we both had a Windows Media Player 10 update
applied in the past two days.

Other personnel that do NOT have this issue have Windows Media Player 9 and or
have not had installed anything from MS Update in the past two days or so.

Thus -- I'm thinking the problem is tied, somehow to this MS Update.

I'm trying to gauge the extent of this issue -- has this happened to anyone
else and if so, do you know if a fix is in the works?

No, I have Windows Media Player 10 installed, without problems. But I noticed
strange behaviour since the newest Flash Player version came out yesterday, see
this thread:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=
1167418