How Do I Stop Flash Player From Storing Cache?

Windows XP SP3
Latest Flash Player (i just upgraded it to the latest as of today)

There are a couple of directories on my HDD that appear to be the place where Flash stores cache.

One of them is (#1):
c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\

The other is (#2):
c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#sharedobjects

These directories were so bloated with subdirectories that it literally took about 12 HOURS OR MORE to delete everything in them!  I'm not kidding.

There must have been 100,000 subfolders or maybe even more in these folders.  They were choking everything on my computer that had to read past them.

I FINALLY was able to delete everything from them after hours of work.

Now I want to keep them empty, so this doesn't happen again but I can't find out how to do that.  It is so dang frustrating.  I looked and looked for a way to shut this storage off.

I finally found the online "Settings Manager" and thought I FINALLY solved the problem after setting the "Global Storage" setting to "Never" and unchecking the "Allow third party Flash content to be stored on your computer" and "Store common Flash components to reduce download times" boxes.

BUT NO!!!

It didn't do a thing.  I looked at those two folders again and they are still being filled up with new subfolders!!!!

UUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

How do I keep Flash Player from storing this unwanted mess on my computer?!

Thank you for ANY HELP!