Maria,
I hate to sound dumb, like some kind of "smarty pants', but I DON'T exactly have this squared away.
I installed the Active X Flash while in Internet Explorer. Your post says that the browser knows the folder location, and Flash will install to that correct location. If System32 is the 64 bit location, and we know that Flash for IE is 64 bit, then why are my Active X Flash files in sysWOW64, ( the 32 bit location?)
I am by no means, trying to be rude, in ANY WAY, so PLEASE do not take ANY of my comments that way, PLEASE. I have grown rather tired of dealing with these Flash issues, ( for over a YEAR ), so I am just going to throw caution to the wind, and try, (RIGHT NOW ), to install the Flash plugin, and see what happens. I'll post my results ASAP.
My playback issues are: (1): I must refresh some sites 4 or 5 times, before I FINALLY "get lucky", and get Flash to playback video(s). Sometimes, it matters not, and those sites absolutely refuse to allow Flash to work properly there. (2): Some sites just will not allow playback at all...period.
(3): I suppose the following has a lot to do with my Internet speed, ( I've tested my DSL speed, and, apparently, it is rather slow ), but, for at least half of the time, all that happens when I am playing back a video, is buffering, buffering, etc. I usually get fed up with it, and exit the screen. Sometimes, under this particular scenario, I will give the video in question a second attempt, but, more often than not, it still will not work, and I'll give up, exiting that screen.
I need to point out that the largest percentage of these problems were occurring before I uninstalled, and re-installed Flash (Active X ), for IE. As I said a few sentences ago, I have yet to re-install the Flash plugin, but am about to do so. More later.
Again, thank you for your patience, politeness, and diligence.
Tommy