Flash Plugin is causing Firefox to freeze

Recently, all of my browsers have been acting up. I use Firefox mainly, but ever since this issue started popping up, I tried Chrome and IE and the same thing is happening there as well. Every time I load up a page with flash on it, the flash plugin crashes, causing my browser to freeze up for 30 seconds up to a minute (I get "Not Responding" at the top too). If I uninstall Flash from my computer, I have no problems at all, but the second that I re-install Flash, everything goes haywire and doesn't work anymore. Even when I reload the page, the plugin just crashes again immediately. I currently have Flash 10.3.181.34 installed. Running XP, and FF 5.0.1

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System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
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DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
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DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
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