[Adobe Flash installs but doesn't ?]

nothing in either TEMP folders when installing flash...

Sorry, I meant your local setings folder in your user profile.

[Help no Aero]

Vista will decide if your hadrware is capable of running Aero. It will be mostly down to the abilities of your graphcs card.

[Adobe Flash installs but doesn't ?]

Hi there, I too had the same problem. The problem lies with Vista not correctly installing/registering the plugin. When you download the plugin it stores it in your temporary directory. Here you will find the msi file. If you run this manually you will find your problem will go away.