I found this download link on this Adobe page. I get a dmg that mounts and displays two files that need to be dragged to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins to be installed. The mounted dmg has aliases to that folder so it looks pretty easy to just drag and drop the files.

Thanks for the info. Tried but to no avail. Also tried installing flash and reinstalling firefox which gave a different problem in that it appeared i didnt haveany flash installed at all. I tested this by going to the adobe site and using their flash version test...according to them I have no flash whatsoever ;-) I have also tried going down in firefox version to 1.0.7. I did this as even though i have heard and read that version 2.0 is ok for 10.2.8 I have also seen elsewhere that it shouldnt work. Im a bit confused and dazed so will try a few experiments over the next few days. But if you have any other thoughts I would be obliged as I will be stuck with this platform for a while.

Thanks again