Apple made a booboo in Snow Leopard

You could "read it and weep" or you could simply do a quick Flash update from the Adobe site! :-)

I imagine Apple have a hefty lead time on DVD production for new OS releases, so the 3rd party software included on such disks is not necessarily going to be 100% current.

I would have said "not good but not the end of the world".

Thanks for the information tho' I'll go and check my version of Flash.