@ Snoggins:
I've registered solely to tell you that you are a gentleman and a scholar! I'd kiss your hand, if you were close by.
Literally tearing my hair out and losing sleep for 2 days over this stupid thing; thank you SO much Adobe! I believe you are right about that; it's the only thing that's been hounding me lately to update, grr! What is refreshing and enlightening, however, is that there seems to be NO way to 'enable' ActiveX once it's been 'disabled' in your services! I could not even type a single letter into command-prompt; any key shut 'er down immediately. Really, Microsoft? For all the troubleshooting, etc. in Win7, this seems a little out of place...
...er, sorry; likely the frustration of the past two days and nights; I've been obsessed like a woman possessed!
Anyway. My psuedo-graphic was a perfect, tiny square....but same shiz, regardless. I'd actually noticed it there yesterday, and thought "wait, what?"...but did not see anything in my extensive searching online that indicated it was actually odd. Only when I'd typed in the entire error message now out of a last-ditch desperation attempt before killing myself did I come upon (yet another) thread on the same exact problem....and found YOU. Bless you.
Thank you again. Muah! *glee*