> That's great news.

Rather "olds" ;-)

> Its a bit messy

How so?

> There was one floating around for 64bit OS' a while back

Adobe Flash has been officially available as 64-bit since September 2010 (and experimental version since November 2008):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#64-bit_support

> I still don't understand why we don't have a fairly good
> word processor. This is not a demanding type of app. I've
> been using them for decades.

Yes, using such application is certainly less demanding than creating it ;-)