My Flash player's broken?

hey all!

So I recently stepped up to the plate and bought a new computer and all the 2004 MX stuff. I went to work on my first project in flash and then published it just on the hard drive. Before, my flash player was working fine in Internet Explorer, but now it doesn’t load the swf at all. It just sits on whatever page and says it’s loading, but does nothing.

I right click on where the flash is supposed to be and it says that it is Flash Player 5!! What happened? I went to the link to download the newest player and it just sits there and doesn’t load anything.

I then opened up a Mozilla window and that still works fine. In Mozilla the player is version 7.

Anybody have an idea of what has happened? I tried doing a search, the the PHP script is returning an error so I couldn’t search.

Help…Please…