Flash Player keeps pausing and buffering

I've never really had this problem before but today whenever I've tried to watch flash videos, it keeps pausing and buffering every few seconds. This seems to be a problem for me on any website except YouTube (YouTube still works fine). I've tried disabling hardware acceleration but that made no difference. I have a high speed cable modem so I don't see how it could have anything to do with my connection speed.
My operating system is Mac OS 10.5.8. My web browser is Firefox version 3.6.13, I also tried using Safari and was experiencing the same problem. The flash player version I'm using is MAC 10,2,152,26. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks a million.

o disable Protected Mode, add the following line to your mms.cfg file located in:
Windows 32bit: C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash
Windows 64bit: C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash
ProtectedMode=0
If the mms.cfg file does not exist, create one using any standard text editor (e.g.. notepad)
Depending on your operating system, you might need to first save the mms.cfg file to a writable location (such as your documents or desktop folder) and then copy the file into the destination folder using Windows Explorer.
To re-enable Protected Mode, simply remove the line from the mms.cfg file.

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Go to Adobe's Flash Player download page and download the Flash installer.
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doesnt go further from here, just stops.
Internet progress:
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Step 1
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