Flash 9 Plugin Upgrade

I upload video files to YouTube fairly regularly. The other
night I received an alert from Windows Update saying there was a
new version of the Flash 9 Plugin available - so I came to
Adobe.com and installed it.
Ever since then, the Flash control at YouTube won't connect
when attempting to upload a video file. It just hangs forever,
while the control displays "Connecting...".
If I use the HTML file upload version - no problem. I'm using
a fiber-optic connection that has an average upload speed benchmark
of 1.8MB/sec - I don't have any problems with uploading - ever!
LOL.
But I can safely say that I'm positive something is buggy in
this new version of the plugin. I attempted to upload a video to
YouTube just minutes after installing the plugin. The YouTube
uploader last worked successfully for me the night before all of
this. I haven't tried to use any other Flash controls on other
sites that perform uploading functionality - I'll leave that to
someone at Adobe to research.
All I know right now is that I'm reaching the end of my
patience with Flash and Vista (Home Premium). I'm seriously
considering just taking a big hiatus from using the Flash plugin
for awhile and sacrificing my Flash video for awhile. For months
now I've been dealing with frequent browser crashes because of the
plugin - and now the new upgrade has put a new kink in my user
experience and I just feel like saying - you guys - c'mon - someone
needs to get on the Vista stick.
Good luck.
FYI:
AMD Turion 64 dual processor
HP Pavillion dv6308nr notebook
1GB RAM
Verizon FiOS Internet
57GB Free disk space
Vista Home Premium
Internet Explorer 7
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

I've long seen this problem, and long heard people complain
about it. I don't get it. If the user's tab which has your Flash
object is not even in focus/visible by the time the Flash object is
loaded, which is almost instantly, why does it matter if the Flash
Player doesn't start up? Wouldn't that mean the user immediately
left your site to go to another tab? If so, they can't see it
anyway, they obviously don't care about it at the moment, why does
it matter if it doesn't load? It almost seems better to pause until
the user comes back, so they get the experience from the very
beginning. Or am I missing something here?
At any rate, I did want to mention something hopefully
helpful: I'd stay away from wmode = transparent as much as
possible. It can cause a lot of very odd, problematic behavior. You
may already know that, but you didn't mention any reason you might
need wmode=transparent so I thought I'd bring it up as a candidate
for removal, it might help in your problems -- it has been known to
do some of the strangest things to browsers.

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