Macromedia flash MX professional 2004 - invalid page fault ?

[chennaiprogrammer]

o/s - win 98 se

IE version 6.02xxxxx

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I downloaded and installed

MAcromedia FLASH MX professional DEMO version

The installation proceeded excellenty without a hitch

but when I tried to run it

it says "This program has performed illegal operation"

FLASH caused an invalid page fault in
module FLASH.EXE at 0187:00c45437.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=00c45437 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=04061530 SS=018f ESP=0131ed20 EBP=0131edac
ECX=00000003 DS=018f ESI=0131ed6c FS=40cf
EDX=00000000 ES=018f EDI=00000094 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
a5 a5 a5 a5 8b 75 f0 33 ff 8d 45 c0 50 ff 76 1c
Stack dump:
00000238 00000000 00000204 00006ba8 16c711f1 00000006 bff741f7 00000008 bff7698b bffc94c0 00008d48 bff7152e bff71547 00000000 04061530 fffffffe

any ideas ?