Flash, Hulu, Youtube on an old Titanium powerbook

Hi - I have a friend who has an old Powerbook Ti from 2002 that has OS X 10.3.9 (I believe it's Panther) on it. It has all of the updates from apple software update.
She wants to be able to view videos from Hulu, Youtube, etc. but finds that the viewing is choppy. I looked into downloading the most recent version of Flash, but it says that it is not supported with this older software. Is there a way to find an older version of flash that will work.
What is my best course of action here? to update to Leopard OS X 10.5.6? Will this older hardware suppport the most recent version of the OS? Would any hardware components...i.e. the older graphics card, etc. be the problem?
Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated,.
Regards,
M.

I don't remember the specs for that laptop, but I think a video card upgrade would be necessary. The latest version of the flash player works best with a minimum 64mb video card. Also ram upgrade and an update to at least 10.4.11 would probably help, but it won't be playing video like the newer macs. I have a powermac that runs a 500mhz G4, ATI radeon 64mb, w. 1GB of ram and it depends on the quality of video. The HD videos will be still be choppy, but lower quality ones run fine.

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