I messed up my laptop at work.

When opening a page with a Flash animation, the animation is just missing. It doesn't prompt me to install Flash player, it doesn't say that Flash isn't installed, nothing. There's just a little red "X" where the player is supposed to be.

I then tried downloading an EXE to install the control, but this didn't work either. The control is just missing!!! According to the IT guys, there was a policy on the previous domain we were on that stopped users from installing ActiveX controls. (This is what they call it...) The new domain doesn't have this setting though, but still I can't install the friggin' player!

I downloaded the EXE for Firefox's Flash Player and it worked perfectly. I can view Flash animations in Firefox, but I would really like to use IE.

Anyone have any idea on how I can get it installed? Perhaps using VB or regsvr32?