@iroc9555 thanks for the links..
By the way flash player just stopped working here is the popup windows gave me. and Yes i did install the 64-bit adobe flash player plugin.. do you think i should try the 32-bit flash player installer? :S
I would say no because you have a 64bit OS version.
Mind you, that is a bone of contention as flash is used by the browser as a plugin, so if you have 32bit versions of your browser/s then perhaps it should be the 32bit version.
However, that said the activeX version of flash player is one that may be used by other applications (avast stats), so is it an OS based requirement or a browser requirement when choosing which flash player to get. Personally I feel it is an OS based decision.
Hence my earlier comment about confusion on what to download and why perhaps they may have gone over to a combined 32/64bit update file.