Safari & Silverlight on iMac

Recently I have paid to view  the Tour de France online with TDF All Access via NBC, Versus, & MapMyFitness (this is not a plug for them because it's been a train wreck experience--don't sign up unless you love having problems). NBC is providing the Live Stream feed for the Tour using Video on Demand and Silverlight.
Long story short, I (and others using Macs) have to uninstall & reinstall Silverlight every day in order to be able to view the live stream of the Tour. This is insane. Makes no sense.
Does anyone else have any experience with getting Silverlight to play nicely on Mac and/or with Safari 5?

With SilverLight, Microsoft created their own version of what a replacement for Flash could be - but not to universal acclaim. You can read more about it here:
http://silverlight.net/
So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards) if you are using a PPC Mac, but even this will not work with Safari 4. Version 2 only works with Intel Macs and does work with Safari 4/5. The solution is to download and install the latest version of Flip4Mac, which now includes a Silverlight component:
http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.htm
But the latest news is that Microsoft will probably abandon Silverlight in favour of HTML5:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/29/apples_ios_pushes_microsoft_to_dia l_down_silverlight_for_html5.html  and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11673384

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