What are people doing here when they update Flash? Are you just downloading over the older version or are you using the uninstaller from Adobe to remove the old version and than download the new version?

I just install over the already installed version which works just fine with the Firefox/Opera/Compuserve version. Depending upon what they do with the IE version sometimes you have to do a little bit of manual cleaning "deleting" in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed to get rid of unused files.

Well on one of my machines I tried the uninstaller from Adobe. It removes all flash from everywhere. It gives you a little report of what and where it removed it. It cleaned out C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed and Opera's plugin folder entries of Flash. Also removed the IE Active X flash. This the recommended method from Adobe but I haven't had any problems installing over the old version. I guess if you have problems and need to do a clean install of Flash the uninstaller will do it for you.

I have nowadays used that uninstaller, before installing new version, and i recommend doing that.

I think Adobe should make the update process better. Having to uninstall Flash everytime an update is released is stupid.

It's not necessary, but recommened.