Can No Longer View You Tube w/OS10.3.9 Nor Update Flash Player. Suggestions

Question

I have a PowerBook G4, OS10.3.9 and primarily use Firefox as a browser. Yesterday when attempting to view a video on You Tube, the following message appeared: “Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.” When I clicked the Flash Player link, my browser was unable to access the Adobe download page (it continuously tried but never succeeded in “reading” the page). I typed in the URL for the download page with the same results. I then tried my Safari browser but it, too, was unable to read the download page. Finally I used Internet Explorer and was able to access the page but there was a notice from Adobe saying in essence they were discontinuing support of Flash Player 7 and recommending updating to the latest version (the heading on the page was “Flash Player 7 for Unsupported Operating Systems”). However, clicking the link provided only took me back to the same page with the same notice. Finally I was able to access an “Archived Flash Player” page where I downloaded various versions on Flash Player 7, 8, and 9, but in each instance I was taken to an Adobe page saying the download was successful and recommending I now update to the latest version. Clicking the link provided however resulted in being returned to the original “Flash Player 7 for Unsupported Operating Systems” page and I was still unable to view You Tube regardless of the browser employed. Is there now no way to view You Tube and use the latest version of Flash Player with an OS10.3.9? Can anyone offer suggestions as to how I might resolve this problem? Please accept my apologies if this issue has already been fully or partially addressed in a previous post. Thanks much.
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Answer 1

Hi Dan,
Thanks for the useful info. Unfortunately, it did not solve my problem. After completing all 6 steps you outlined, I tried to view a video on You Tube and got the same "you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player" message and, once again, when I clicked the link both Firefox and Safari were unable to successfully access/read the Adobe download page (indeed, I cannot even access adobe.com with my Firefox and Safari browsers and had to use Internet Explorer to download the latest Flash Player and even then, I could not do it from the regular download button but had to go to the "Archived Flash Player" page on the tech support site). There were several folders in the "Flash Player 9 Debug Archive" zip file I downloaded (9r115, 9r15, 9r16, 9r28, 9r45, 9r47, 9r48) and within each of the folders several different installers (while I downloaded and installed "flashplayer9r115macdebug.dmg" there was also a "flashplayer9r115ub_macdebug.dmg" installer in the same folder and, of course, a great many other installers in the various other aforementioned folders). BTW, I originally downloaded the "Flash Player 9 Archive" zip file on the Archived Flash Player page but when attempting to install the 9r115 version from this file, the downloading sequence would not fully complete and stalled at the 3 items remaining stage, so I downloaded the aforementioned Flash Player 9 Debug Archive and was able to successfully (or so it seemed) download the 9r115 version from it, but still could not view flash content as described above. Do you (or any of the other discussion participants) have any further suggestions? Thanks for your time and consideration.