I am getting a plugin update screen when I open Firefox. How do I disable this.

I am running W2K SP4. Most of the plugins are for XP or newer, so I really can't update. This screen is really annoying. I just want to disable this.

That is a bug with blocklisting plugins that has been fixed. 
You can correct this issue by forcing the file blocklist.xml to update or wait until Firefox updates the file. 
That update will remove the severity="0" flags in the file that cause the problem.
See:
* [/questions/832793?page=2#answer-198407]
* http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10899869#p10899869
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663722 Bug 663722] - The blocklist output is including severity="0" where it shouldn't be

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