Adobe Flash Player update wiped HD again

I'm about to give up on this stupid Adobe/Apple war. I'm traveling and updated Flash, only to find out it had wiped out every settings in Firefox and when I rebooted, another install happened and damaged my HD beyond repair. Disk Utility is hopeless. It can't repair the HD. I didn't know there was an uninstall for Flash.
This is the third time in 2 months an update wipes my HD, and each time it seems Adobe was part of the installs.
I'm fed up with this ******** war between those two. I'm loosing money, productivity and it's it's only hurting us. Now I'm stuck traveling and can't work. This is not Apple, these are the problems I used to have with Windows.
Any idea what to do? I'm stuck? I booted from an external drive which is painfully slow... I'm so fed up. Is there a class action law suit. This is costing me too, too much money and time.
MacBook Air, 13-inch, Mid 2011
1.7 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)

Nonsense. Software does not destroy a HD. Boot your Mac into its Recovery HD by holding dowm the command + r key after the chime. Choose Disk Utility and click on Verify Disk. If its in need of repair be sure you have a backup then hit repair.

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