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Now I totally confused. Do I have flashplayer or not? Is it only contained inside Chrome? Are there any consequences to my computer? Am I ultimately exposing my computer to battery drain and potential slow down problems anyway? HELP! Thoughts and opinions will be greatly appreciated.

Well... one of the benefits to Chrome is that Flash is built in and automatically updates. I believe it only runs within the browser and it does not install in a traditional sense. It should not impact your system whan Chrome is closed.
You can also view many YouTube videos using HTML5 instead of Flash. HTML5 is a newer web standard that allows for viewing videos instead of Flash. YouTube has converted many of their videos over to HTML5. You can view them with FireFox and Safari (and Chrome if you like). Unfortunately, I'm at work and YouTube is blocked so I can't point you to the link for using HTML5 instead of Flash. This should be the right page:
http://www.youtube.com/html5

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