Flash Not Working On All Websites

Hey guys -
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). Unfortunately, Flash only works on certain websites in both Safari 5.1 and Firefox 6.0.1. For instance, YouTube works, but Flash videos on Barnes & Noble don't.
What I've tried so far:
Upgraded to the most current version of Flash (version 10.3.183.7)
Uninstalled Flash
Reinstalled Flash
Repaired disk permissions
Restarted the Mac
Changed Flash settings (both local and global)
Disabled all internet plug-ins except Flash plug-ins
Tried the Flash 11 beta
Ran Flash Debugger. I get the following errors on certain pages:
Error #2134: Cannot create SharedObject
Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
(I don't know what these errors mean or how to fix them.)
Turned Safari extensions off
Opened Safari in 32-bit mode
Emptied cache and reset Safari
Of course, I've searched Apple Support, Adobe Support, and the web. And so far, this has me stumped. To make matters worse, my wife has an account on this Mac, and she has no problems whatsoever with Flash. Any help would be appreciated.

Download the free Onyx, run all the maintenance and cleaning aspects.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
You can cancel the in-between reboots, make sure you reboot at the end.
Also under the Verify is a preferences file check, show the errors only and later hunt these files down in your User>Library>Preferences folder and move them to the desktop and reboot. The files will get rebuilt, set your preferences and then trash the desktop files.
This should clean you out good, you got some sort of corrupt cache or something as it's only in your user and not the other.
>Error #2134: Cannot create SharedObject
I think this is a LSO, basically a "Flash Cookie" which tracks you across the Internet and "shared" between websites running Flash.
For some reason it can't create it, perhaps the folder/file where they reside is corrupted somehow.
Searching for "Macromedia" with Easy Find revels Flash elements are located in the following areas:
Delete all of these and reinstall Flash.
the users/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player
the users/Library/Preferences
the users /Library/Application Support
Library/Application Support
All else fails, create a new user, transfer your files there using the Drop Box and when you up completely, delete the old user.
I don't think it will come to this, the corrupt preference file is likely your problem.

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