Why won't the 10.3 Flash Player work on my Mac 10.5.8?

I actually posted this as part of a discussion under the thread "Flash 10.3 unable to be recognized", but nobody seemed to pay any attention to it there, so I am reposting my question as a new thread, but that is the problem I am having. When I download the player it says at the end it is installed, but yet I can't play games on FB I used to play, no You Tube, and no live chat room access, problems I never encountered until messing with this "current" Flash available. So here is what I did so far:
Okay, so I need help with this same problem that Tombland began to describe best, same system, and I followed some of the suggestions you asked him to do Chris Cambell, and he got it worked out, and I didn't so I ran out of things to try, so here's where I am at with the apparent inability to recognize the 10.3. I have a Mac 10.5.8, run Safari on it. I would never have even updated the player if I knew it was going to be this big of a hassle, but I was trying to get a football game from ESPN3 to play(which never even ended up working!), so now that I did that, I get no You Tube videos, and a chat room I frequent often is unavailable to me as well.
Sooo....I went to that page where I looked for "Shockwave Flash" section, and I did NOT have one. So then I followed the instructions to go to the folder/Library/Internet Plug-ins and I DO have "flashplayer.plugin" being displayed in there. So now I have no idea what that means and what I am supposed to try next. I have tried uninstalling it, I have reinstalled it, I have tried to get archived Flash Players to go back to whatever I had that used to work(!), and I am not very good with computers especially a Mac, this is my first Mac I have had it for 1-2 years so I am still familiarizing myself with it, I have always had PC's. So please be VERY specific when you reply to guide me through the next part of the process to get this system working right. Please!? Thank you!(And I don't know how to show pictures of the screen being displayed, so please don't ask me to do that, although it has been very helpful what others have been able to visually show me to look for, sorry).

It sounds like you had Flash 10.1 or earlier previously installed. The older versions of Flash Player had "universal" support, which basically meant that it could run with either Intel or PowerPC based macs. The new version of Flash Player, 10.3, only works with Intel macs. That checkbox was telling Safari to run in the old, PowerPC mode, which isn't compatible with the updated Flash Player. In addition to getting Flash Player to work, you should see a performance increase in Safari as it's running in a native mode now
Glad I could help!
Chris

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