flash 9

on two separate occasions with two different computers i've encountered issues with flash not installing correctly (IE). on adobes site it will only show a " mark where the animation should be. now on the one computer i did a test and installed firefox and it worked fine for firefox but not IE. Well that computer had other issues as well and I ended up just formatting the drive and reinstalling. after that it worked fine.

now the second computer i uninstalled flash 9 and install flash 6 and it worked fine except a couple sites that wanted the lasted player again firefox worked fine.

What is the issue here. note: i'm nowhere near these computers now so i can't do any tests.

Here are the steps I've had to take on a few machines:

1. Uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
   http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...4157&sliceId=2
   
   
2. Remove the Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX control
   Includes: How "To manually uninstall the ActiveX control (Flash Players 6 and earlier only)"
   http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...2727&sliceId=2
   
   
3. Install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player
   http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...h&promoid=BIOW

filehippo also lists the latest Flash Player for IE as a standalone executable. This may install better for you than the interactive download from Adobe. I would run the latest uninstaller for Flash Player 9 before trying it. (Running the uninstaller will mean you'll need to reload the Firefox version again.)
http://filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_ie/