What else to try? I've tried these steps to get Flash to work

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32 bit, with IE9. I've had flash on my computer for years. Current version is 10.3.183.10. Yesterday it stopped working. Web pages are saying that I need to download Flash. Used your uninstall utility to remove what I had. Restart. Download again. The animation comes up and says it's successful. If I opened a new tab on the browser and tried to play a clip, it worked. When I closed browser and reopened, it would not work. Got the same message that I needed Flash. Repeated this many, many times. I installed as Administrator. I disabled firewall and all active programs while doing this.
I downloaded uninstall utility and install file to desktop and tried to install from there. Didn't work. Active x was not checked in Security, so that wasn't the issue.
In toolbar extensions, Shockwave Flash is enabled. Java is enabled. Java Script has scripting enabled in security tab.
I checked "use software rendering instead of GPU rendering."
In Control Panel there is an icon for Flash that says Flash Player settings Manager. It says allow sites to save information on this computer.
Under Programs and Features, it shows Flash is installed.
Under Windows, System 32, Macromed, Flash here are the files that show up:
Flash Player Trust              8-21-2011  File Folder        
Flash 10x.ocx                    9-27-2011  Active X Control    6,235 KB
Flash Install                       9-27-2011  Text Document       143 KB
Flash Util 10x_Activex.dll    9-27-2011  Application Exten    322 KB
FlashUtil10x_Activex          9-27-2011   Application             238 KB  
install                                4-10-2010  Text Document         37 KB
When I tried to go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/   at the top of the page is says " an error occured while processing this directive."  I tried many times.
This appears on one of your pages: Is your Flash Player a debugger version, video capable, audio capable, and local File input/output enabled? The following displays the type of Flash Player version that this browser is running, and its capabilities. Usually, only developers creating content for Flash Player require this information: Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.  You're OWN page requires an update!
I have been to every page and have tried everything I have read in the posts. When I tried to sign in to post this, my computer went into a frenzy opening new tabs that alternately flashed "adobe.com" and "Redirecting" and tried to access adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl (then I couldn't read the rest. It wouldn't stop. I had to use control, alt, delete to get out of it. I had to open Chrome to sign into this forum.  Flash works in Chrome, but it's built in, right. What is going on with IE?
Common, Adobe, how about some help (with no charge!) for the legions of us that can't get your program working properly? We would be ever so grateful to get our lives back!

I thought maybe I could download Flash Player to my computer through Chrome, but since it's integral in Chrome that didn't work. I used the uninstall flash. I did a system restore. I ran Microsoft Essentials and current Spybot with no issues except a few cookies. I cleaned up hard drive of unused programs, and all temp files. I ran "temp", "%temp%", and "prefetch" and emptied the recycle bin. I restarted, and downloaded flash again. If I opened a new tab on the same browser, I could play clips. If I closed the browser and reopened, Flash Player would not work, it was not recognized. When I tried to sign in to the forum on IE, the browser did this crazy thing again switching tabs furiously from "adobe.com" to "redirecting" to "blank page." It finally crashed the browser again on a blank page, and a control, alt, delete was necessary.
I then tried the malwarebytes utility that Chris suggested. It did pick up some issues, and the free version only fixed some, so I purchased a downloaded version and ran it. FLASH PLAYER NOW WORKS!
However, when I tried to sign in again to this forum IE, it still does that wild cycling tab thing. I tried several times more with no luck. So I am only able to login through Chrome. I can live with that.
Obviously we don't know what caused the issue, ( whenever you closed the browser window from which you downloaded, it would never again recognize that flash player was installed. )
I am THRILLED that I can finally walk away from my computer for awhile! My family missed me!
Thanks, Chris and Carl!

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