"Failed to initialize error", help?

Hello guys, I did a fresh install of XP Pro SP3 on a Dell D400 old laptop, all else is working fine, upgrade IE7 to IE8, went to youtube, it's asking to install Adobe flash, went to the site and attempted to install but at 50% I get an error promp saying "Failed to initialize" so I searched the net and came across a video showing how to use and do the flash palyer uninstaller and went through the steps so everything concerning the flash player was deleted from the C/windows/system32/macromed/flash folder but reinstalling the latest version still gives the same error. I am thinking becuase this ia an older laptop I may have to install an older version of flash player as this laptop's specs are Intel pentium 1.8Ghz, 512 Ram 40GB HDD but I cannot find version 10 anywhere on the net and I am only seeing "plugins" on the Adobe download section, help please?