Wired Keyboard issues with Flash / general slowness with LION

So I upgraded to Lion about a month or so ago. All has not been great. I am running a 2009 Dual Core Intel iMac with 3 GB ram. One thing I notice is that initially certain flash support was NOT supported (mainly web cam support through flash on web sites). So web sites offering chat clients with cam support as an example - the performance would lag badly where typing messages would skip letters and leave nothing but garble. I attempted to try different browsers, but found the results to be disappointing:
Safari: Web cam support through web sites was simply broken - even manually trying to alter adobe settings would not get you any further
Firefox 5: You had to set permissions for web cam support prior to launching a web site as flash settings to enable / disable it within the web site were simply not useable
Chrome: Settings worked, but the performance was so slow, if using a web chat client and a web cam at the same time, it was almost impossible to type proper words unless you typed a character a minute.
I realize there has been a Lion update recently (a few weeks ago) and after the update, most of these issues seemed to be fixed. But then, Adobe came out with a FLASH update and now performance is lagging once again to the point where web cam and chat is almost not useable.
Is there anything that can be done to work around this issue?

Please read teh directions for an SMC reset:
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