Flash Player flickering in IE8 on pages with Flash

We're having a problem with Flash 10.1 on an Windows XP Pro 32bit machine and all pages with associated flash content flickering when you scroll the page.  This has been happening with the most recent version as well as older versions.
Machine: Dell Optiplex GX620
Windows XP PRO 32bit
Explorer 8
Flash 10.1 (latest)
I have uninstalled & reinstalled Flash and all other Adobe products several times.
I have updated the video drivers
I have disabled / reenabled H/W acceleration
I have run IE8 w/ the no Add-on option and it does not flicker (obviously)
Now what's very odd is if I log the user account off and log in with admin credentials, I get NO flickering at all on any pages with flash content.  However any user account that does not have admin rights on the machine has the flickering problem.  We have several hundred machines in the building and this is the only one having this issue.
I also noticed that after uninstalling flash and then reinstalling it, and then trying to install Shockwave - I got an "sw.cab blocked - unknown publisher" error which I'm guessing means that Adobe is not being correctly registered on the machine when product is installed.
ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS MATTER WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Still haven't solved this problem but I've noticed the flickering happening in IE8 as well. Every few seconds it sounds like a click-event is firing. The flickering occurs even when the project is paused. Essentially the user hear's a "click" sound and the page flashes to white and seems to reload, however it doesn't effect the timeline of the project. That being said its extremely distracting and certainly a huge bug of some sort as it is only happening in various versions of IE. We're testing on XP, but I would imagine its doing the same on other versions of the Windows OS.
Could it have something to do with the fact that there's a separate flash player for IE? What's going on here?

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