Powerbook Ti - playing video - hulu, youtube, etc.

Hi - I have a friend who has an old Powerbook Ti from 2002 that has OS X 10.3.9 (I believe it's Panther) on it. It has all of the updates from apple software update.
She wants to be able to view videos from Hulu, Youtube, etc. but finds that the viewing is choppy. I looked into downloading the most recent version of Flash, but it says that it is not supported with this older software. Is there a way to find an older version of flash that will work.
What is my best course of action here? to update to Leopard OS X 10.5.6? Will this older hardware suppport the most recent version of the OS? Would any hardware components...i.e. the older graphics card, etc. be the problem?
Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated,.
Regards,
M.

I suggested adding a 512MB RAM module to whatever is presently in one of the slots, for a total of either 640MB or 784MB. This would make Tiger run noticeably better than it will with the bare minimum of 256MB, for a minimal investment. Tiger itself will cost just as much as Leopard (if not more), so in the interest of economy, I didn't recommend buying two 512MB modules to max out the machine's RAM.
There's no way to upgrade either the CPU or the GPU to anything faster, so if boosting the RAM and upgrading the OS, web browser, and browser plug-ins doesn't improve the video performance noticeably, at least the experiment won't have cost more than a couple of hundred dollars. I think the machine may be OK for your friend's purposes with those upgrades in place, but I can't guarantee that it will be.

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