I have had multiple non-technical friends, in one case on a fresh install I'd done myself, run into the Flash update window simply showing a gray background tha

I have had multiple non-technical friends, in one case on a fresh install I'd done myself, run into the Flash update window simply showing a gray background that never does anything. The best solution for this, from Adobe's own forum? Find the corporate-deployment version, download that (ignoring the messages that say it isn't what you want) and run it. This works flawlessly, but even less automatically. Both the Flash and Java updates almost feel like "Pay Attention To Me!" Just like all those discount cards that exist in part so you carry around a fetish with the corporate logo.