I thank everyone for all the help... the only thing not tried is installing it to another drive, that is just tedious and will have to wait until I Have the free time.

 

I guess my main point is, I have other 3D software installed, I have MANY other applications installed, and none of them.... not one other... required me to play with my firewall (now poser8 runs as admin and has a hole for the application), or flash player (I extensively use adobe products, they update constantly).  Or I cannot have a web browser use poser.  It should just work...

I am considering upgrading to poserpro 2012 for the file conversion to other formats, I hope this issue is fixed.