Why does the latest version of flash player not work even after it says I have successfully download

[kmfarrarla1]

Can someone please help me? I have tried to download the latest version several times of flashplayer. It shows that is has downloaded successfully but when I try and watch a video or listen to Pandora music it tells me that I am still missing the plugin?? I am extremely frustrated and I am not alone it seems. The previous version I had worked fine. Why mess with that?? Now I cannot play videos or listen to anything. PLEASE HELP??!! Would love to be able to fix this soon. I use Firefox as my browser. I am on a dell CPU with Windows XP. Like I said the previous version was working wonderfully but all of a sudden I am told that the plugin is not there and to update. Why???? When I check my programs in control panel it shows the program there but anything using video tells me it is not.

[pwillener]

You write downloaded, but did you also install it?

[kmfarrarla1]

I went through the installation where the bar shows the percentages downloaded and installed. Once it shows 100% it asks me to click Finish. I do. Then I go to yahoo to check and it continues to show that the plugin is missing and that I need to download Adobe Flash which I thought that I just did. Am I missing something in terms of installing??

Kent M. Farrar

[chris.campbell]

Please post the contents of page that is displayed when you go to the "about:plugins" page in Firefox.

[kmfarrarla1]

We're sorry...

You need Adobe Flash to play this video..  Download Flash

Kent M. Farrar

[kmfarrarla1]

We're sorry...

You need Adobe Flash to play this video..  Download Flash

The above is what I get even after installation is supposedly complete.

Kent M. Farrar

[pwillener]

Is the Shockwave Flash plugin enabled in Firefox?

And please post the result from what Chris asked you.