If the second link prompts you to download a file, your flash add-in is broken for FireFox. (It should display the version number in a large font.) I'm not famine with managing add-ins in FF, but removing flash and reinstalling might be called for if these tests fail.
Vista, Firefox. I just do a drag&drop. Never had a problem until I tried to drop in a 3 meg pdf. Musta been to big. (So I just told the TS to Google the exact title of the pdf.) That worked.