Firefox crashed after flash update last night.tried to uninstall firefox and it crashed during uninstall.now when I try to reinstall firefox 8 it locks up on do a little housekeeping screen in set up. what do I do next?

this is not the first time I have had flash updates corupt my firefox, but this time I was unable to reinstall firefox. I am running windows XP Home service pack 3. AMD Athlon 64 processor 3500+ 2.21 GHZ with 3.25GB ram.

Is the Firefox program folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\) still there?
If so then try to delete that folder.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

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