Thanks so much for this response - now I know I'm not going mad and others are
in a similar situation. I guess that's the real answer: wait for Apple to come
up with a fix!

With regards to the problem you're having with Flash, it's all gobbledegook to
me. It took many days of help from folk on this site to show me the way to do
this and in the end I found a Flash ace who has created a straight forward flash
programme to use.

But if you need any help, I think the Q&A are still somewhere on this archive
from last year ( I hope)

All the best

Barry



--- In sandvox@yahoogroups.com, Vincent <coolestcat@...> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> First of all I like your video work. I would like to get into video
> in the USA. I need to pick up a camera, and start honing my craft.
> I'm a still guy from back in the day.
>
> I have the same problem with 10.4.11 and Safari 4. I just upgraded
> to Safari 4.0.2 (Version 4.0.2 (4530.19)). with the hope of resolving
> the issue, but no luck. I was on the phone with Apple for an hour
> before they admitted they were having a problem with 4.0. They told
> me to hang in there till they came up with a fix.
>
> In my case I am getting a message with another web authoring
> software, that Flash is not installed - Please click here to install
> the Flash player to see this website correctly. Flash is installed
> correctly of course as tested by the Adobe site - tested with Apple
> on the line.
>
> I asked Apple about reverting to an old version of Safari, and was
> told to re-install my OS in order to get back to Safari 3.x. Of
> course, this sounds like a lame idea to me, so I'm not going to do that.
>
> I'm using Firefox in the meantime with no problems at all.
>
> Vincent
>
> On Jul 12, 2009, at 9:39 AM, bjwdirect wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all this info - wow! such a lot to do in order to
> > uninstall. If think it's best that I wait a while before trying
> > something like this - I'd hate to make the problem worse.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > --- In sandvox@yahoogroups.com, Agatha <aunt.agatha@> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, here's another go.
> > >
> > > 1. Download Pacifist and open the Safari 3.2.3.dmg
> > > 2. Look in the Resources tab and look for a file called Payload
> > > 3. Extract "Payload" to your desktop and unzip it, it won't show
> > up as
> > > zip but you should be able to unzip it. If not, press Enter and
> > > add .zip to it and save it with the .zip extension.
> > > 4. After unzipping the "Payload" folder you'll need to replace the
> > > files in the folders in the exact area on your system. So you
> > navigate
> > > to one of the folders and only erase what is in the "Payload" and
> > > replace the "Payload" version of that file to where you erased it
> > > from, and so on until all your "Payload" files have been put into
> > the
> > > system to their respective places.
> > > 5. Repair you disk permissions and reboot your machine.
> > > 6. Run Safari 3.2.3 installer and it should run without having to
> > ask
> > > you where it will be installed.
> > > 7. After the installer finishes, you'll need to reboot.
> > > 8. Enjoy, there's nothing wrong with 4 but I don't think it's quite
> > > ready yet. For me it seems to be crashing from page to page. It
> > looks
> > > like some sort of memory problem. But 3.2.3 is working fine and has
> > > been.
> > >
> > > Re Tiger:
> > > To me it looks like the Tiger version of the Safari 3.2.3 package
> > has
> > > the application listed directly in the Package Contents tab of
> > > Pacifist unlike the leopard version. This is good for those who wish
> > > to completely downgrade from Safari 4 and leave no trace of it on
> > > their machines. Those wishing to do this should be able to select
> > the
> > > package in Pacifist and click the install button in the toolbar.
> > This
> > > will replace the Safari 4 files in the /System/Library and the /usr
> > > directory with the Safari 3 versions. If you want to run side by
> > side
> > > installs, you simply select Safari.app from the Applications
> > directory
> > > in the Package Contents tab and click extract, placing the
> > application
> > > wherever you like. When that is finished, just follow the directions
> > > from earlier in this thread to modify the Info.plist file and
> > correct
> > > the preferences issue.
> > >
> > > More for Tiger:
> > > Thanks for all the info here. I'm using Tiger so the Pacifist
> > process
> > > was a lot simpler for me. I had manually deleted all files I could
> > > find related to Safari 4, but still couldn't install the older
> > > version. Extracted/installed 'Safari.app' using Pacificist and
> > now I'm
> > > back in 3.2.3 heaven.
> > >
> > > I'm using Tiger and it was very easy to do the update using
> > Pacifist.
> > > After opening Safari 3.2.3 in Pacifist all I had to do was select
> > the
> > > Package Contents of 3.2.3 under the Pacifist "Package Contents" tab
> > > and then click install in Pacifist. I was not interested in a
> > side by
> > > side with S4. S4 is gone.
> > >
> > >
> > > It's from:
> > > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9600739&#9600739
> > >
> > > See also here:
> > > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2032359&tstart=0
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Hetty
> > >
> > > On 11 Jul 2009, at 19:20, bjwdirect wrote:
> > >
> > > > There's no uninstaller with the Safari 4!
> > > >
> > > > Barry
> > > >
> > > > --- In sandvox@yahoogroups.com, Agatha <aunt.agatha@> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Here's a possible solution.
> > > >> Download Safari4 again and reinstall it. There is an
> > uninstaller with
> > > >> it. With this uninstaller you can uninstall Safari4 and with a
> > good
> > > >> copy of Safari3 (either from Apple or your TM backup) you
> > should be
> > > >> able to go back to Safari3.
> > > >> Let me know if it works out.
> > > >>
> > > >> Hetty
> > > >>
> > >
> >
> >
>