So far we have had 2 computers cause us some horrible headaches with the Macromedia (um, Adobe) Flash Player 8.
I install Flash 8 and it runs while logged in as an administrator, but when logged in as a restricted user it is not recognized.
I bump up the regular user’s position to administrator level and it works, drop them back and it stops.
I go into \Program Files\Internet Explorer\ and select explore.exe and do “Run as…” with an administrator powered user and Flash will work in the window opened that way but not in one opened in the normal way.
We tried to narrow down conflicts and did a special check for malware. We made sure XP was fully up to date (it was) and still no go. Then the problem arose on a second computer. Of all the computers running here with similar settings, 2 have the problem (as of right now).
It took a bit of searching, but we found a solution from Macromedia (well, Adobe).
It requires registry edits, but at least it works.
thanks for the heads up!