macromedia players flash: Hi all,

I've searched and posted at Mozilla forums, I've searched and posted at Mac
forums, but this problem I have seems to be unique and it just doesn't go away.
Flash player isn't working on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.8. I really want to
understand this problem and fix it, rather than having to totally reinstall my
entire system and not ever know what happened. I really hope and pray there's
someone here who knows how to fix this, because I've ran out of ideas, and I'm
[i]not[/i] a n00b!

Please check these threads I started:
Apple > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=769826&tstart=0
Mozilla > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2658557#2658557

btw: it's [i]not[/i] a Firefox specific problem, it also happens in Safari and
others browsers I use; the standalone player is working just fine, but the
browsers are just not picking it up and even tell me the Flash player is an
unknown plugin!

Oh smart people of the world ... enlighten me!

This is the same problem I'm having. Flash worked fine on websites until I
downloaded the Flash 8 Trial, which I'm guessing upgraded Flash Player to the
latest version, which is not compatible with MacBook. There is no way to get
the Flash Player version that came installed on the computer unless you find
someone with a MacBook and can drag and drop their files onto your computer. I
know that worked for a few people but I haven't tried it yet.

I've also tried downloading some older versions of Flash Player, and that
doesn't work either.