Finally killed my flash/animation/java problem.
A complete uninstall of Zone Alarm with [b]manual[/b[ removal of leftover files has fixed it. Took me about an hour but I’d happily do it again if I had to. A subsequent reload of ZA has shown no more repeat problems.
I had a trial version of ZA pro last month but elected to revert to the free version a couple of weeks ago when the trail expired. A settings file must have remained in my system, which I did not have access to via the free version, and needed to be deleted.
Thanks to all who have given advice in this and my previous threads for this problem.
The Procedure
The problem in my previous post was an unrelated memory problem.