Computer keeps freezing w/adobe flash player 10...help!!!

Question

ok, so i've literally done EVERYTHING that this site, and the microsoft windows site, have recommended.  yesterday "eidnolb" had one final suggestion; un-check the accelerator box on the flash player logo.  i did that and figured that if that didn't do the trick, i'd know about in about a week, or so.  that's how long all of the suggestions lasted before i have to un-install and re-install flash player 10.  well...last night i was listening to christmas music and after a couple of hours (only this time??) my computer again crashed and my only choice was to (again) cold boot it, which isn't really good for it.  i have not yet done the uninstall/reinstall.  i'm hoping someone, somewhere, has more suggestions to try!
i read (somewhere) someone asking if they could uninstall version 10 and then re-install version 9.  however, at this point, i have no idea where i saw that, or if it worked??  if that worked, or will work, what do i do if i then get a message that there is a newer version of flash player?  can i ignore it?
i'm using IE 8 and, as stated, (trying to use) adobe flash player 10.  i also have netflix that i use quite often.  actually i think that's what started this mess to begin with?
please, i've read all the suggestions on here about a lot of people having the same problem and as far as i can tell there seems to be nothing i can do about it, seeing as i really do need the flash player on my computer.
ANYONE...PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
thanx-cat

Answer 1

sorry all...don't mean to keep posting, but i'm guessing that the more info i give
all of you, the better the help maybe.
this entire mess (everything i've now listed) really started with the IE 9 Beta, which is what made un-install it after about a week (i think), and then install IE 8.  i had never used IE 8 though.  i went from IE 7, to IE 9 Beta, to IE 8, which is what i have now.  i did all the un-installing and re-installing of the different versions correctly.  i've checked all of that, but is there a chance that the 9 Beta just "glitched out" my laptop and it isn't going to get fixed until they have the usable IE 9??  the IE 9 Beta REALLY messed with my mail page the most.  i attempted to contact yahoo about a fix, to no avail!  LOL  (we all know this!)
also...why am i NOT the only one that the freezing happens to?  there are others on this forum that have that problem.  i don't know if they're having the other problems that i am, but as far as my laptop freezing up on me...  i know i'm not alone?  with xmas coming up so soon, i haven't watched anything on netflix in a couple of weeks.  my news videos seem to play correctly; and now youtube works.  i just have no idea what's going on that is causing this to freeze up at other times, or the other, smaller glitches?
there's not a doubt in my mind that this has something to do with the current version of adobe, and IE 8...i just don't know what it is...and my frustation level is at about 19!!  LOL   there are days that i just shut the whole thing down/off 'cause i'm just tired of dealing with it!!  that has made it terribly hard to get my xmas chopping done.  i do it all on-line.  between my problems and problems with vendors sites, my bank a/c has (3 times!) gotten charged multiple times for a single order.  then "we" start calling people!  the bank, the vendors, the bank again......
see what i'm up against here!!!!!!  i'm cracking me up this a.m.  macy's placed 9 orders and charged my a/c 9 times, the other day!  needless to say, i ran in the red for 2 days while they figured it all out.  in doing all that, i couldn't even get an order # outta them, so i told them to just cancel EVERYTHING!!  good thing i have a great rep at my bank, huh??!!  'course they're also messed up...at the beginning of dec. i (somehow?) transfered the same amount to my chkg. a/c, 4 times??!!  yep...the bank's gotten yelled at, too, during this season of such wonderful happines!!  BAH-HUMBUG!!