Flickr plugin broken

As with the Facebook plugin, and discussion here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4854227  the flickr plugin (and anything that writes to the temporary area) are broken on Windows 7, at least since the latest Windows update.  The plugin crashes because it can't write temporary files to the drive.  I am running Lightroom 4.2  and Flickr Plugin 4.2.0.850741.  Instead I installed Jeffry Friedl's Flickr plugin as a workaround, which does not have this issue (http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook).
Adobe, please look at this!

Also, I used Microsoft's Process Monitor to track which files were written when I published a 1-photo collection to Flickr:
These are exactly the directories and files you'd expect, which suggests something very curious on your configuration.  A screenshot of the error message might produce more clues.

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