Duh!  I had two Mozilla directorys and I was putting the plugins into 
/usr/local/mozilla/plugins instead of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or vice 
versa?).  Now it works fine.  Sometimes the answer is just so simple you 
miss it.

>I downloaded both Mozilla 0.8 and Flash 5 for linux yesterday. Both 
>installed without a hitch, and are running fine. All I did was follow the 
>Flash README instructions for installation. Did you copy both the flash 
>plugin file as well as the Java .class file into your plugins directory?
>
>Dave
>
>At 09:00 PM 02/20/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>>I just installed the Flash plugin into my mozilla/plugins directory but 
>>Mozilla doesn't seem to recognize it's existence in any way.  I made it 
>>executable has anybody here been through this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Brady