I was stupid, and now Flash won't play (Mac)

I have a problem — due mostly to my own stupidity, I think.
A couple of days ago I was visiting MacUpdate and spied a listing for Adobe Flash Player 10.2.161.22. It didn’t say, at the time, that this was a beta release. Anyway, since several sites had suggested that I needed the latest Flash Player to view their content, I downloaded and installed it: that was my first mistake.
Once installed, all the graphics in both browsers (Firefox and Safari) went nutty: nothing would display properly. Thinking that I could just install the previous version, I downloaded that from Adobe. Well, that couldn’t be installed, because a newer version was in place.
Okay, I thought, I’ll just throw away the Adobe Flash Player and re-install. What I did, was to go to my folder Internet Plugins and throw away the Flash Player and the other file in there: that was my second big mistake. I then installed Flash player 10.1, but all my sites were now telling me that I had no Flash player installed. Just to make sure, I tried reinstalling several times: didn’t work.
I suspect that the second file (whose name I can’t remember) that I threw away in my Internet Plugins folder just might have been important. Can anyone help? Any advise would be really, really appreciated. How do I fix this mess?
I’m on a Power Mac G5, dual two-gig, 6 GB ram, running system 10.4.11 (32 bit), with the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.
Thanks,
Bob Dawson

Hi, Well Bob, that is certainly good news!!
You did very well, glad it is working for you. That was tricky, getting all those ducks back in their row:-)
You might try www.ESPN3.com. If you have any problems read the system requirements and especially the FAQ part.
Thanks for posting the steps you took. Hope you didn't have a difficult time following the procedures on the Uninstall or Install sites.
No more betas for you!! LOL,
Regards,
eidnolb

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