Flash 11 and the Nvidia driver

Hello, I'm using Flash 11 in Widows XP, with an Nvida 8600GT.
I find the performace to be poor, with even lo-res video - it's choppy.
I'm running the Nvida driver version 266 from 01/11.  Is it possible if I update my
driver, I may get a better response from playing flash video's?
Why does Flash use so much CPU just to play a tiny video?
Even youtube video's that are just audio and a still video picture
consume vast amounts of cpu.  How do you explain it?

I do not have IE9 installed; I'm using Firefox 7x in Windows XP.
I have toggled HW acceleration on/off, restarted FF to test the same video again,
and it plays smoother with acceleration disabled .
With acceleration disabled I see 50% cpu (approx) being used, while with it enabled
It's 30 - 40 % .
The CPU is an AMD 4200 x2 dual core.

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