[Ham-Computers] Flash Player install problems

[Jerry K]

Appears I'm up against it here. For 6-8 months have been running a late
model Dell Pentium 4, 2.8 Gig w/500M RAM with XP Pro and had no problems
whatsoever. Recently some website graphics have quit working in IE, along
with a message that I don't have a Flash player installed. Instead, I now
get a little placeholder box with a red X in it.

After trying everything I could think of with security and privacy settings,
I tried to download and reinstall FP 7.0 from the Macromedia website.
Couldn't even do that, the download graphic won't even come up (red X
again). Downloaded Macromedia's uninstaller, ran it, and it said it found
and successfully uninstalled Flash Player.  Went back to try the FP7
download again, same results. Can't even see the graphic on the download
page, just the red X.

Can anyone tell me why I'm now getting little red X's instead of graphics
(doesn't happen on all graphics, only those that appear to be animated with
Flash Player), and why I can't even see the download graphics on
Macromedia's download site, much less download the player? Could this be
related to QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, or some other
commonly installed graphics player?

Tks.
Jerry W5KP