[Novalug] Adobe Flash Ubuntu question

[Megan Larko]

Hello!

I have been patching various computers in my group to use the new Adobe 
Flash version 10.  For those of you who have not been keeping track, 
there was a security flaw in Adobe Flash version 9.x.y.z.   There is an 
exploit that takes advantage of the flaw, so it is not just academic.
I have gone to the site http://www.adobe.com and clicked on "Download 
Flash Player" and followed the instructions on my WinXP and Mac OS X and 
on my 32-bit CentOS and Ubuntu systems.   They have all taken the new 
Adobe Flash v. 10 just fine.

I am having trouble with my 64-bit systems.  The patch released by Adobe 
  is 32-bit, I believe.   The patch provides on file: libflashplayer.so. 
  I thought that 64-bit could use 32-bit lib files?     Although I hope 
that my users don't use the head node of the cluster to run firefox, I 
certainly will not stop them and I can see it being useful.   Should I 
be concerned about the Flash vulnerability on 64-bit linux?  Is there a 
way in which I can force the 32-bit libflashplayer.so to be used?

Currently I have disabled Flash (v. 9) on my 64-bit box.

Info from wajig install attempt:
wajig install install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
dpkg: error processing install_flash_player_10_linux.deb (--install):
  package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
  install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

 From uname -a:
Linux GMU-CREW 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 15:47:07 UTC 2008 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thank you,
megan