Flash 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 all result in BSoD

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For the longest time now, I've been forced to use Flash Player 10.0.45.2 since it was the last revision that ran stable on this machine. I know the three revisions after that support hardware accelerated playback, but that just results in major instability and an eventual BSoD. I just tried 10.3 today to see if it resolved the issue. Nope, same problem.
I had been using the nvidia driver revision 260.99 for a while, which supported the video acceleration feature of flash player 10.1 and newer. I went ahead and even updated to 266.58 just to confirm it's not a driver issue either. It's not. However, the crash is always related to nv4_disp.dll.
I'll repeat that all flash player versions NEWER than 10.0.45.2 will cause system freezing and crashes.
My browser type is Firefox 3.6.17, although I've had this issue on other versions including 4.0.
System specifications:
Sager NP2096 (Compal JHL90 model)
Core 2 Duo P8800 @ 2.66GHz
Geforce 9600M GT 512MB (A1 revision, uses DDR2 memory)
15.4" 1680x1050 Screen
3GB DDR2 800 Memory
Hitachi 7K320 320GB 7200 RPM HDD
Windows XP Home 32bit w/SP3
For the longest time, I have been hoping that adobe would notice this issue somewhere, and somehow fix it. I might be an isolated case, and flash is just giving me the middle finger here. But with more and more sites requiring an upgraded flash player, I'm getting worried. I've seen netbooks more stable with newer flash revisions, and that's just sad at this point. >_>"
Any suggestions would be great.

SOLUTION: Flash Video Causing Blue Screen & Lockups
Symptoms: While playing a flash video, your screen locks up; goes black; you can hear audio in the background; and/or Blue Screen of Death. The Blue Screen indicates a fault in nv4_disp.dll.
================= SOLUTION   =================
Newer versions of Nvidia Drivers are causing the problem.    Disabling hardware acceleration in Flash only reduces the frequency of the lockups, but does not resolve the issue.
Use this version of the Nvidia driver (but no later):   266.58
Get it here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
This is confirmed to resolve the problem.
Later Nivida drivers added CUDA 4.0 (Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA) and GPUDirect™ v2.0) which is the root cause of the issue with "older" cards such as the 200 series and the 8 series.
If you have a somewhat older graphics card, there really is little need to update past version 266.58.
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Dump:
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini081511-02.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nv4_disp.dll (nv4_disp+0x1DB0EC)
Bugcheck code: 0x1000008E (0xFFFFFFFFE0000001, 0xFFFFFFFFA2AC1925, 0xFFFFFFFF9F6CC8B8, 0x0)
Error: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nv4_disp.dll
product: NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 280.26
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 280.26
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception which the error handler did not catch. This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nv4_disp.dll (NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 280.26 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nv4_disp.dll NVIDIA Corporation KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M

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