Broken file system permissions

Sigh. Another day, another borken set of adobe permissions.
After the fiasco of trying to upgrade Acrobat Reader 709 (and
all the associated broken registry permissions), I notice that
Adobe has now broken the flash player permissions.
Go check out flash9b.ocx or flash9d.ocx. Try and uninstall
them. Enjoy the fun!
*WHY ON EARTH HAVE YOU DONE THIS*?
Total insanity.
For those that *really* want to remove the product, run
cacls %systemroot%\system32\macromed\flash\flash9b.ocx /e /p
everyone:f
attrib -r %systemroot%\system32\macromed\flash\flash9b.ocx
The installer will then properly clean up the files.
Adobe - any chance you could ask your packaging team to stop
screwing with permissions that they do not understand and more
importantly do not need to change!
Mike

Step 1
If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since your last backup, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
a. Boot into the Recovery partition, or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) When the OS X Utilities screen appears, launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
b. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
c. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
Step 2
The easiest way to deal with the problem is to boot from an external drive, or else to use either of the techniques in Steps 1b and 1c to mount the internal drive and delete some files. According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation.

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Hi Craig,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
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