Flash shuts down after start up screen - please help

I had a strange problem develop yesterday. Whenever I start
Flash 8 the start up screen shows for a moment, then disappears and
the program shuts down and never starts. I ran Ad-Aware, Spybot,
HijackThis and even did a file search by date to see if anything
appeared on my computer that would cause this but I found nothing.
I have Flash MX installed as well and it was doing the same thing
when I tried that. I repair/installed Flash 8 - didn't work, then
uninstalled Flash 8 and installed again and it's still doing the
same thing. I suppose I could uninstall MX too and try again but I
suspect that's not the problem. Any thoughts?

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