Flash uninstalls itself on its own

I have 1 computer that keeps uninstalling Flash. The PC is Win XP SP3 32bit running IE8. I thought it might have been McAfee but there is nothing in the logs saying McAfee thinks its a virus or spyware. Add/Remove programs does not list Flash but the Flash icon in the Control Panel is still there. This happens randomly, sometimes once a week, sometimes once every other week. Any thoughts or input on this would be great. Thanks

Here is the log, I wanted to wait until it removed itself again, which it did this morning. I'm having this issue on 2 PCs and I spoke with those users. They both got an update message and ran it. After they ran it, Flash is not there. We do not allow our users to have admin rights, so what I'm thinking is that somehow the update process is removing the older version, then when it tries to install, it can't. Here's the contents of the log from today.
=O====== M/10.3.181.26 2011-08-16+11-16-12.973 ========
0000 [I] 00000010 "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10t_ActiveX.exe" -update activex
0001 [I] 00000011 0
=X====== M/10.3.181.26 2011-08-16+11-16-25.516 ========
=O====== M/10.3.183.5 2011-08-16+11-16-25.642 ========
0000 [I] 00000010 "C:\DOCUME~1\sthorn\LOCALS~1\Temp\4.dir\InstallFlashPlayer.exe" -iv 0
0001 [W] 00001015 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10t.ocx 5
0002 [I] 00000018
0003 [W] 00001015 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10t.ocx 5
0004 [I] 00000013 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10v.ocx
0005 [I] 00000015 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10v_ActiveX.exe
0006 [I] 00000016 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10v_ActiveX.dll
0007 [I] 00000019 C:\WINDOWS\system32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0008 [I] 00000020 C:\WINDOWS\system32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0009 [W] 00001024 C:\WINDOWS\system32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl 183
0010 [W] 00001032 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10v.ocx 80070005
0011 [I] 00000018
0012 [E] 00001032 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10v.ocx 80070005
=X====== M/10.3.183.5 2011-08-16+11-17-16.035 ========

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