this is very basic it usually means you don't have a flash player. or it could be a virus, spyware, or adware. a third possiblity it could be blocked
do the following scans, anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware,
get macromedia flash player
avoid flash pages
please report back and tell me how it goes here are a few
programs that i recommend if you don't have the software needed to do the scan
name purpose
AVG anti-virus
spybotS&D anti-spyware
ad-awareSE anti-adware
to find them search for them using a search engine
winNT SP6
IE 5.5
(at work)
On web-pages that have flash content, I always get this popup message box that asks if i want to install the Flash plugin. I always click NO 'coz I don't want it. Is there someway to disable that? I don't want it to ever ask me. Thanks.

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