Uninstalling Multiple Versions of Flashplayer from 10,000 Machines

We are preparing to upgrade Adobe Flasplayer to the most recent version. The major headache in the past has been uninstalling older versions of Adobe Flash Player. I downloaded uninstall_flash_player.exe and cannot even get a list of switches to use with the /? switch. I keep getting a message stating
Adobe Flash Player Installer/Uninstaller 10.3 r181 has encoutnered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
The frustration level in attempting to use your products on a large network is difficutl to describe, but I am frustrated already and have not even gotten past the first step. Needless to say I do not have the option to touch each machine manually. I am running this on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 machine, but will also be uninstalling/installing on 64 bit Windows 7 machines.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Sandy Martin,
I ran your query past a member of the engineering team that focuses on install and uninstall issues, and got the following response:
Can you please ask [the poster] for the FlashInstall.log file located in \Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash directory and a screenshot of the error?
Also, if he/she has 10,000 machines to update, I hope they’re licensing the player and distributing it via SMS Catalog. Info here http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html and details for this type of deployment are posted in the Admin Catalog (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html).
I also happened across an article from the Adobe Developer Center that addresses the issue of enterprise deployments: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/enterprise_deployment.html.
Hope this helps,
KALTechWriter

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