Flash 11, does not play some content, cannot fix

I updated to flash 11 this past week, worst decision ever.  This is what is going on, and the steps I've taken to resolve it.

OS: Windows 7 64 bit professional edition.

Browsers:  Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE 9

Thursday (before update): Have had an issue with a facebook game, would load the game, but not the "invite neighbors" or "send gifts" type of page.  I decided to clear my flash cache.  After doing so, the game didn't load at all.  This is what led me to update my flash player.

Friday - Updated to flash 11.  Game didn't work at all, I couldn't load the video on www.watchtheguild.com (it always loaded the most recent episode on the default page, no longer...).  Youtube works, I play flash games on kongregate (most do NOT work, only tyrant does that i have found).  When I try loading something that doesn't work, it's just a black screen, nothing else. I've tried setting storage settings to unlimited and walking away to see if it eventually loads.. it doesn't.

Friday&Saturday - uninstalled, reinstalled, unistalled, reinstalled, checked settings, cleared caches, checked plugins enabled, etc. etc. etc.  googled googled googled.  (FYI - for each install/uninstall I right click and run as admin). 

Sunday(today) - did the registry thing with subinacl + reset fp10.... twice.  The issue is consistent with all browsers, so you would think it was the registry right? apparently not. 

I'm out of ideas here.  I've tried shuttting down my anti virus (AVG), and all background programs from the task manager before install/uninstall.  I'm downloading an archived versin of 10.1 in hopes that I can get back what I had before, somehow I doubt it.

I do have adobe flash professional cs5, could that be an issue?!?!?!?  I need help and ideas on what I can do next aside from reformatting my entire F*&*^$@# hard drive and starting over entirely from scratch, which I do not want to do since it would take weeks to get back what I have on my PC. 

Should I try uninstalling adobe development stuff? I'm going crazy here.