chknapp posted to the MyOpera Forum with a fix for getting Flash to work.
You can Check your Flash installation here.
For the record, I still find most of the Flash I see online as useless and annoying, but some stuff is good. YouTube can easily kill an afternoon, although I still think it as more proof that if you give a million monkeys the Internet, you won’t get Shakespeare (or, in YouTube’s case… Spielberg… you might get closer to Sandler…)