The purpose of my previous post was not about Adobe offering consumers links to standalone Flash installers but that rather to give others the information on where they can find them. I do not remember where I got the idea that Adobe was not going to be offering consumer standalone Flash installers so people may disregard it, but for some reason Adobe is currently not offering standalone Flash downloads to consumers that I could find and this seems to have been ongoing for about a week or so based on other posts. It appears that the consumer links on the official Adobe web pages to standalone installers are bad/missing/gone. The purpose of my post was not about why this was happening but rather to give people the links to standalone installers so they didn't have to go through >100 pages like I had to in order to find them. Ultimately the only pages I could find that had standalone/offline Flash installers were for licensed business distributors (#1) and the archives (#2). I could not find one for consumers with standalone installers. Below is just one example of an Adobe page (official, not forum) where all the links to standalone Flash installers are bad /missing/gone.
On the troubleshooting page: Flash Player Help / Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-pla yer-windows.html
Examples of Bad/Missing Links on this page:
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
direct links for Internet Explorer
P.S. All other Adobe links work fine with my IE 10. Since I have IE, I didn't check the non-IE download which I now did and ironically it DID work. So I am perplexed. Sorry, I throw up my hands and give up in frustration to figure this out.