Flash 10 install issues and use with PowerPoint

Question

Hi feeling really frustrated now and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a quick solution.
I'm running Windows 7, Flash 10.0.32.18 (now the Beta 10.1 in desperation) and I haven't had to reinstall flash on start up until last night so that was an unfortunate down turn of events for me and not even the reason for searching the forums.
My issue started as I stood in front of one of my classes (I work in a College) with PowerPoint 2007 and a lesson ready to go and the Flash images that had always worked refused to be anything other than a still image with no interaction.
Unfortunately when I upgraded to Windows 7 I carried out a clean install and reinstalled Office along with the latest versions of Flash, Shockwave etc. I say unfortunately because I now have no way of knowing where the problem lie. On asking, Microsoft are adamant that it is an Adobe issue and the forum would seem to back this up.
On investigation I found that when looking at a slide the object was identified as a Flash object but I can't view any properties, also 'insert a shockwave flash object' is not available in the control toolbox. This would indicate that Flash is not installed even though viewing flash on the internet has not been an issue.
The last issue that may help toward a solution is that when trying to view an .swf file I'm informed that I need to have FlashPlayer installed (I have) and when trying to use a third party flash player such as SWF Opener it also asks me to install flash.
Like everyone else here I've installed, uninstalled all Flash etc. more times than I care to remember now.
I'm not that technically minded when it comes to the nitty gritty of software operation and programming, I just like things to work.
Please help as the most important thing I use my laptop for I now can't!!!!

Answer 1

gm377!!!!
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Talk about famous 3 words, It's All Fixed is what I love to hear ! Well good for you, bet you are glad
that is done and as I like to say when all of the ducks are in a row, FP is a piece of cake! It is always
the ducks that cause the problems.
You asked about the dates in manage add ons, as far as SFO is concerned and FP 10 it is more exact
to look at Add/Remove, the screen shot I have shows Adobe Flash Player 10 Plug in and the date is
11/18/09 probably when you did one of the Un/In stalls or the beta and it logged the correct version
there in Add/Remove. However in the 1st screen shot of add ons, SFO is not even listed, probably due
to the Uninstall and Reinstall actions. I have noticed Windows updates are listed in my Add/Remove, not
when I install them, but when Microsoft issued them and maybe Adobe does the same thing. Then I have
XP3/IE6, so you have differences there too. In my add on for example, no dates are shown and when I
updated my SFO Active X (I can do that with IE6:-) I know when I did it. Even though you had Shockwave
Flash Object listed you did not have the Flash10c.ocx which is the ActiveX CONTROL, the engine if you will
that Flash Player 10 works together with so all Flash websites, youtube, etc need. Think of having a gas pedal
and no gas in the tank, everything works together:-) The plug in you installed today was the Flash10c.ocx, the
gas. Go look.
Hey are the slides working now too?
Ok, I'll take a Christmas card
Well thanks for the "star" and appreciation and the best to you!
eidnolb
(I had some problems with fitting sentences and links on the posts today, that's the reason for the half sentences & funny looking paragraphs)
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