Flash Player 10 tells me its installed but I can't find it?

Hi,
I work on a Mac G4 running OS 10.4.11.
I need to look at some swfs so I went to download the free flash player. It downloads, the installer takes me through the installation, selects my Hard Drive (that has 66GB free) and tells me the installation is complete.
But when I look in my Hard Drive it's nowhere to be seen - only the 'install flash zip' and '.dmg' files are visible.
Am I being just being dumb here or do I need to do something? It's so frustrating I've ended up trying to re-install it a billion times and still nada.
Many thanks for any suggestions,
neil

Hi had the same problem tried many ways to install, but i found where the file is, installed it from there and it worked. Here is where you can find the file c: windows/ system32/ macromed/ flash. Hope this helps.

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