Adobe flash for Mac

I tried to install the latest version of flash player on my Mac and have gone through the troubleshooting guide already. I uninstalled the old flash player, and i closed everything out, but I still get the error message "Adobe Flash Player cannot be installed. Devices with PowerPC processors are no longer supported. Click below to download the last version of Flash Player for PowerPC." I'm especially confused since the website said it could tell I was using a Mac OS X...

The website uses a javascript to determine the OS and browser in use by every visitor.
As to the issue of not being able to install:
In October of 2004, Apple ended a long relationship with Motorola who had made PowerPC processors and IBM who made the G3 G4 and G5 cores for them. The PPC processors ran too hot in confined spaces and too slow for what Mac had planned. They looked to AMD and Intel to find a new processor developer. AMD while plenty fast and plenty stable is just as hot as the PPC processors were, so Intel became the new processor maker for Macs.
In 2008 Mac decided that they would sunset support for PowerPC machines in twelve months. By August of 2009 all support for the machines and the OS's (10.5.8 I think was the last supported) had ended. EVERYTHING Mac makes now is Intel, be it hardware or software.
It reads like you have a PPC machine which is unfortunately not able to use Flash Player 10, which is built to run on an Intel architecture. You will need to download 9 from a place like oldversion.com.
A word though. You will find increasing difficulty running apps and viewing content geared for the latest versions of Flash Player. I'd guess by the time it gets to 10.5, player 9 won;t be able to access Flash content.
The PPC machines were good and they lasted way longer than their PC counterparts, but their time has passed. Intel Macs are the future and PPC is soon to be a memory of what once was.

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