Hangs and The ball spins unless I uninstall flash elements shockwave

I have an iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 10.6.6. 4Gb ram. 320 hard drive only used about 50GB of it. I've been using it fine until about november 2010. Spinning BeachBall - system holds - cannot close down force quit - happens constantly and so i ...
Reset prams
fixed permissions
safe boot
opened new user account
did hard drive apple disk check
cleared caches
used applejack (this helped a little - for a period of time)
clean installed
slowly reinstalled items - worked them for awhile.
After a day or maybe less the constant spinning ball and system hang came back - got worse.
so after weeks of slow deduction (installing apps programs uninstalling cleaning etc) I have now been able to fix the problem
delete adobe flash - adobe photoshop elements 8 and shockwave. Problem gone!
But clearly not solved.
cannot reinstall later or older versions of flash/shockwave onto my computer or in anyway install elements because the problem comes straight back.
Help?

Well you are being thorough on your troubleshooting however this looks like an Adobe issue. Have you posted the problem in an Adobe forum?
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