An ebay weirdness

I have just started to sell some junk (what else?) on ebay and came across a little nasty I thought I would document here. I was using Windoze (cough, cough), and Micro$oft Internet Exploiter. After quite a while I noticed that the web pages were no longer working properly. I could not enter the category of a new item and was getting a warning triangle on the bottom left hand corner warning of scripting errors. Several other people also get this and I saw a range of conflicting advice. However, on guy said to uninstall the flash player. I went to uninstall in the control panel. I did not see flash listed but I saw Macromedia shockwave player so I uninstalled that. Suddenly, ebay started working again! Go figure....