Having Trouble Opening things after downloading

I have had my macbook for about 6 months and about half the things I download won't open after I download them. When I try to open them, they just download over and over again.
The latest thing is Flash Player, which I need to take my last class to graduate from college. Please help. I don't want to have to go to the library at school every time I need this application.

Sounds like we need to clearly establish what's happening!
With Firefox & Safari, a "downloads" window opens when you download a file of any kind. If it's an application installer, you can double-click the icon in the downloads list once the download finishes and the installer should run.
So for Adobe's FlashPlayer, you'd go here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Click the "agree and install now" button, and then go find the file (probably in your "downloads" folder (home>downloads) or on your desktop. After unzipping the file, you click the disk image (the .dmg) and open the installer. Once the disk image mounts (it should appear under "Devices" in the Finder window), click on it and then open up the .pkg file.
Hopefully that helps you a bit. If not, please be sure to clearly outline what you are doing and post images if possible. You can take screen shots by holding commandshift3. The images will be on the desktop and can be hosted on another website, such as photobucket.com or imageshack.us.
Also, is there any link you could give us to see if we can view the pages properly? Are you certain they should work on a Mac?
~Lyssa

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