Flash Player 10 Crashing/Freezing IE 8

I've recently upgraded my laptop to Widows 7 and everytime I go to a site supporting Flash Player it crashes my Internet Explore 8 (The browser just freezes and is "not responding). I've tried the following:
1. Uninstalling and reinstalling Flash Player. I do use http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html to unistall.
2. Tried both 32 bit and 64 bit version of Internet Explorer. I know Flash Player only supports 32 bit.
3. Tried using Google Chrome. Browser still freezes.
4. Tried different sites. I've tried a number of sites and same issue reoccurs. In fact, when I go to www.adobe.com the current video clip ("Avatar") freezes the browser.
Any suggestions?
Thank you

I was growing tired of hearing this question, so I checked in with management and wrote a technote about the topic.. Generally IE8 is fine, but as with any new release there could be issues, so this doc covers how you'll deal with those:
"Flash Player 10 and Internet Explorer 8"
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/493/cpsid_49384.html

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