Flash playback jerky

Does anyone else notice slightly jerky playback with Flash Player (the latest version)? It's getting really annoying trying to watch Hulu, for example.
I've tried enabling and disabling hardware acceleration in the Flash Player settings, to no avail...
Is it me, or shouldn't Flash play quite smoothly on this machine?

Latest versions of Safari and Firefox. Seriously doubt it's the browsers, since Silverlight (Netflix streaming) runs fine. This seems to be a Flash issue -- happens both with Hulu and Youtube.
After doing a lot more research, it seems like this is an issue with Flash basically sucking with OS X. Found another discussion in the Leopard section about this issue.
I just don't understand how some people DON'T have any stuttering with their unibody MBP. They should all basically be the same when it comes to something like this. This is why I am curious as to whether those who have completely smooth Flash playback have some setting tweaked or something like that?...

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