I have installed Flash Player 5 times. It keeps disappearing, or won't load when I'm running MSIE8.0

[CowboySlim50]

I am running Windows XP, MSIE 8.0. I have installed Flash Player 5 times. It keeps disappearing, or won't even install over Internet Explorer. It stops halfway, and tells me to close Internet Explorer because it can't install with it running. I did that yesterday, and it installed when I started IE again, so I thought the problem was solved. Then, today, I logged on and tried to use Flash Player.  It was not installed.  I re-installed it, and came to the same block. It will not install while Internet Explorer is running.

[Carl_E__Myers_Jr_]

Download the correct 32-bit or 64-bit uninstaller and installer and exit I.E.8.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3952360#3952360

Run the uninstaller.

Reboot.

Run the installer.