Flash and DVD player freeze

After roughly a day of my MacBook Pro being on, flash video starts causing all browsers to freeze systematically (pinwheel until force quit). Non-video flash content plays normally. A reboot always solves the problem, and it always returns after another day or so.
It's been 2 weeks, and since then I've noticed that as flash videos start freezing up browsers, DVD player also freezes up when trying to play a DVD, and After Effects gets stuck on loading (Initializing Media Core). The reboot resets all those symptoms.
Seems to me that something is wrong with OS-wide video playback. I'm not absolutely positive that Flash is causing the problem, but I feel that it is.
Ideas appreciated.
Thanks,
Yi

Some additional info:
I have acquainted myself with the plethora of Flash problems mentioned elsewhere in Discussions and around the web, but none of the problem mentioned there seemed to be reset by a simple reboot, and then keep coming back. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Flash and my browsers, and I've tried repairing permissions and repairing the disk a few times.
Thanks,
Yi

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