Flash player disappeared from Firefox; "required privilege?"

Hi everyone,
I've spent hours & hours reading different posts online, on adobe.com, etc, & find similar situations, but can't find anything on my exact issue. (sorry if i'm beating a dead horse here & asking something that's already been dealt with....if so, please direct me to any posts that have dealt with this).
About a week ago, my flash player just "disappeared" from my Firefox, but still works in IE & shows version 10.1 in IE when i check it at Adobe's about page. Everytime I try to watch videos in FF, it tells me i'm missing the plug in & to install flash player..doesn't matter what site it is. It lets me download flash player for FF, but isn't showing in my plug in or download window in FF, & even after restarting FF, still won't play any flash stuff. I even uninstalled FF & reinstalled it.
Here's the message I get everytime I install Flash Player from Adobe's site: C:users/Teresa/appData/Local/Temp/FP_PL_PFS_INSTALLER.exe "A required privilege is not held by the client". I have no idea what this means. I have a 1 month old Toshiba laptop, Windows 7, 64 bit, & videos played just fine until about a week or less ago. One morning, they just wouldn't play in FF. Don't know what happened. I can still watch vids in IE with no problems, & it shows that I have Version 10.1 installed in my program list.
Can anyone out there help me figure out what's going on?
Thanks a bunch!

Hi,
I went to this site: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html#main_Advanced & followed these instructions. It worked!!! Just thought I'd pass it along to hopefully help others. Thanks for your help
      Advanced troubleshooting
Verify user permissions User
permissions determine whether you are allowed to install Flash
Player. You may not be able to install Flash Player successfully if you
don't have administrator permissions to Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, or
Windows 7.
To check whether you have administrator permissions for your user account:
In Windows XP
          Right click the Start button and search for Open All Users and Explore All Users menu items. If you find these menu items, you are an administrator and have enough rights to install software.In Vista/Windows 7
     Select the Start menu on the lower left of the screen.Select Control Panel.If you are an administrator, you see a selection named User
Accounts. If you are not an administrator, you see a selection named
User Accounts And Family Safety.
If you are not an administrator:
Home users
          Create a user account with administrator permissions and try
re-installing Flash Player after logging in to that account. For more
information, see the Microsoft help page Create a user account.Workplace users
          Contact your system administrator for instructions.
Note: In Vista/Windows 7, regardless of your
permissions, you can run any software as an administrator by right
clicking the file name and selecting Run As Administrator. Provide the
administrator ID and password when prompted.

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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:29:54 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help!! Adobe flash player disappeared
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