Mozilla and Flash

[Bryce C]

Ok, I am finally giving up trying to solve this myself.  Why the F#@!
wont the flash plug-in I download from Macromedia work in Mozilla 1.0 or
1.1 on mandrake 8.2?  Whenever the libflashplayer.so is in the plug-in
directory, about:plugins shows it as installed but Mozilla COMPLETELY
locks up when I try to visit a flash site (http://www.macromedia.com). 
Can anyone give some clue as to why this isn't working and how to fix
it?

P.S. It worked pre-1.0 and I've tried re-downloading it since.
P.P.S.  Sorry for the coarse language but darn it, i'm mad. 
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Bryce Chidester
Network Administrator
CoBryce Communications
Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
http://www.bryceco.net