You're right Jim. I failed to mention that Old Version referred me to oldapps. At any rate, I used the MS tool found here to revert me back to IE8:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...net-explorer-9 NOW I have IE8 installed and Flash is NO problem. More thanks for your continued interest. Now this is really a solved problem.
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