Flash crashing Firefox on Mac

I recently upgraded to Firefox 3.5.5 on a TiG4 running 10.4.11, and the latest version of Flash player, 10.0.32.18. After numerous Firefox crashes, I had support at Firefox go over the crash reports, and they concluded that the problem was entirely in Flash. I have tried unistalling and re-installing Flash. I am using the latest Java. While disabling Flash prevents the crashing, what do I need to do to get everything working again?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Also, unlike some others here, I haven't had any installation problems.
Has anyone else been able to get the latest Flash to work with Firefox on a Mac?

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