Flash Player 9 suddenly stops working,Flash 10 won't install

Question

Hi all!
I have been going around in circles on this.(and you can see on secondary Details what MacMini this is...an older one running Os 10.4.11) Below is a clip of the Disk RepairLog re: the Flash 9 Player suddenly not working. I downloaded the Flash Player 10 (which is all Adobe seems to want to let me do...can't get 9 again!!) It shows Permissions repaired (and I have tinkered with User Permissions too)...No Luck. When I go to Library>Internet PlugIns the Flash PlugIn won't open. I have updated Quicktime (and in Quicktime I DO NOT get the choice to enable Flash ,but a selection under Mime/older encoders..(all are checked). It's Quicktime Pro,latest version. Quicktime should display that Flash option in the Advanced Menu. Here's Clip re: Permissions:
**Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”**
**Determining correct file permissions.**
**Permissions differ on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/Info.plist, should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rw-r--r--**
**Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/Info.plist**
**Permissions corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/Info.plist**
**Permissions differ on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player, should be -rwxrwxr-x , they are -rwxr-xr-x**
**Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player**
**Permissions corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player**
**Group differs on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin, should be 80, group is 12**
**Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin**
**Permissions corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin**
**Permissions differ on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt, should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rw-r--r--**
**Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt**
**Permissions corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt**
**The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume**
SO SHOWS Repaired !
Other thing ...Disk Repair Fails on Exit...here's clip about that:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Overlapped extent allocation (file 8595642 /System/Library/Frameworks/Quartz.framework/Versions/A/Quartz)
8595642 /System/Library/Frameworks/Quartz.framework/Versions/A/Quartz
%@)",1)
16280333 /Users/stevewebster/Desktop/fp9_archive.zip
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 3215926 instead of 3215909)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
SO....HELP...anyone know what could be happening here?
One other thing grabbed off another forum. Do any of you think this is advisable or could I make matters worse?...See Following:
Okay, solution found! It's dangerous for newbies but experienced Mac users can handle it
Go to System Preferences>Accounts. Right-click on your name on the left, and choose Advanced Options. You can now change your UID and GID. They should be 501. Set them to 0. This gives you the all-powerful (and dangerous) root access. Log out and log in again. If it happens the same for you as it did for me, you'll be scared at first if you've never done this before. The log-in process changes to the more secure form, and you may log-in as root, not as yourself at all!
That doesn't matter, though. Run the Flash Installer and it will do its thing. If you had any kind of permissions setback before this will plow right through it. The Installer opens a test page when it's done so you'll see its success. Now, immediately change your GID and UID (for your own name, of course, not the System Administrator if that's what you're logged in as now) back to 501. Log out immediately after this, and log in as yourself again. The browsers should have working Flash under your name as well. Mission Accomplished!
P.S.: Adobe can still bite it (particularly their tech "support" site), but without Flash the Internet is a much less interesting place, unfortunately, so I'm glad I got it working again.)
Thanks for any help...I can't view the multimedia content on my own web site and this makes things pretty non functional.
Liz

Answer 1

When Disk Utility reports failure on exit, it means there is something it can't fix. Usual solution is to use Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro to fix the problem. That Disk utility found issues with Quartz is interesting, as Quartz is OS X's foundation for it's graphics system, and coincidentally your primary issue is with Flash. It may just be coincidental, though.