Broken Flash

Hi all,
I don't now how it happened, but suddenly my Flash player wasn't working anymore (probably my own fault somehow, but don't ask me how). My logical thought was: de-install, download and re-install.
Flash Player Standalone is working fine now. The problem is, none of my browsers see it. I've tried throwing away all Flash related files and then re-install, I installed through Firefox, I even installed an older version (8) of Flash player, but nothing seems to work.
How to fix this?

I'm having the same problem, I think that the newest version of Flash is not compatible with the Intel Mac.
so frustrating >.<
It would be really great if either Apple or Adobe/Macromedia addressed this problem, because there seems to be no place to download the version of Flash that will work on my Intel MacBook.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Message was edited by: bananerehe, 'cause I got somethin' to say!

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>I created some pull down menus using CSS. Directly below
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running flash
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I was horrified that you seem to clickjack me.
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>I created some pull down menus using CSS. Directly below
the menu bar I
>had a
> Flash file that runs on load. The pull down menus look
corrupted in
> the
> browser (safari and FireFox) when they appear over the
running flash
> movie. Is
> this a z index problem? Any work arounds?
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