Crashing on 'test movie'

I have Flash 8 on a Mac Powerbook, running 10.4.7 with 2gb
RAM.
When using Flash everything is fine but as soon as I either
select 'test movie' or hit apple+return the application crashes.
This happens around every third of 4th time or trying.
As you can imagine this is very annoying and I would
appreciate any advise.

Hi,
Try to re-install Flash. if the problem still exist, contact
the customer support.

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Path:            /Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/Adobe Flash CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Flash CS4
Identifier:      com.adobe.flash-10.0
Version:         10.0.2.566 (10.0.2)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
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Report Version: 6
Sleep/Wake UUID: 85F82BE0-C1EA-43C7-9A7C-77DA38363765
Interval Since Last Report:          177155 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           10
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 89418 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   10
Anonymous UUID:                      C8B710B0-DB36-428D-834D-975007911DCD
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