Player Dwnld Wont Work: for IE7 Road Runner

Hi,
i've been having the download problem for a while now and nothing seems to work. This is what I did: first of all I have Vista and RoadRunner IE7 on my comp and its my home page, as soon as i click on IE a popup shows up saying that it needs permission to continue the "Internet Explorer Add-On Installer", then i click continue and nothing happens for a few seconds and the sign appears again, over and over.

After reading some of the forums I tried everything I saw:
1) tried uninstalling (uninstall worked) and installing the new one...when on the adobe download page for Flash Player...nothing happens, i dont get a pop up or anything...it just shows the page
2) i tried cleaning the registry files using the "Subinacl" and "reset-minimal"...the same things happens when i try to log on IE and download the new Flash Player
3) RoadRunner can only operate with the new version of Flash Player, so i just tried typing in "www.rr.com" in the address bar and a page different than the home page of RR pops up...it has a button to download the new version, which just relocates to the adobe page referred in step 1 and the same thing happens...not able to install

I dont know what else i have missed from the forums...i thought i did everything everyone has said to do

someone please help me
thanks,
alex