Issue w/ new Laptop and Flash in Windows 8/Firefox 23

Maybe someone can help me with a similar issue.  I am running Windows 8 64 bit, firefox 23.0.1 on a brand new Asus laptop, 3rd gen Intel I7.  I currently have Flas 11.8.x installed and enabled as well as shockwave.  Some pages that seem to use Flash, like Google Play, work just fine.  However, others do no display any content.  They do not display the crash logo (w/ the sad fave lego block),  I get only a blank (white or sometimes black) space.  If I right clock on this space, I get a greyed out option displaying the message "Flash movie not loaded" and an enabled button that read "About Flashplayer 11.8.x". 

For example, Yahoo Fantasy Football draft room will not load, neither will the flash test video at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html.  I tooke my computer back to TigerDirect for them to take a look at it, and while the Tech there said he didn't know what to tell me, he also said he was sure it was a software issue.  That being said, my GPU is Nvidia geforce GTX 670MX.

I have also tried to run Firefox in compatibility mode in WIndows 7 and XP, and in both these instances, with updated flash, I at leas can get a "Flash Has Crashed" graphic in the instances that flash is not displaying. I have also tried loading flash in IE10, Chrome and Opera to the same issues.   If anyone has any help, please let me know.

p.s. sorry for the double post, thought I should create a new thread for this.