Flash Player works only for Local Admins

Hi!
We have about 40 computers in our organisation with the same problem: Since few weeks the Adobe Flash Player (ActiveX) works only, when the user has administrative privileges. If a normal user wants to watch youtube-films or other flash objects, there will only appear a message that (a new) Adobe flash player must be installed to view the content (or so). It looks like there is no Adobe Flash player installed. But if the user is a local admin, everything works fine - on the same computer.
Under Software Adobe Flash Player is displayed as installed.
We have WinXP Professional SP2/SP3 32bit running on 4-year-old Maxdata computers. And few new computers (also WinXP Professional SP2/SP3 32bit)
Confusing: There are few computers where flash works for everyone! It seems, that especially the computers that are new don't have this problem.
I've tested everything: Using the MSI-file, using the EXE-file. Uninstalling the MSI, uninstalling the EXE. Using Version 14, 16 and now 26. Uninstalling everything by the offical Adobe flash player uninstaller. Installing the software as administrator, installing the software via GPO. I've deleted system32/macromed/flash. I've used Microsoft subinacl - with the offical adobe reset_fp10.cmd. I edited system32/macromed/flash so that everybody has write rights on this folder.
But nothing works. It's always the same: Videos in the IE are only shown for admins.
And now, I've no idea, what else I could do?!
Anyone else?
Greetings from Germany
Peter

Pat, is this the one?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/729200?tstart=0
eidnolb

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mearsfan42
Help..
all of a sudden my flash player has stopped working under one
of my accounts. it only occurs in IE7...using firefox is ok...
this account is an administrator account, but not the top
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