For those who care, Macromedia's Flash plug-in is also being used to track cookie-deleting web users:
Macromedia offers instructions on controlling "Local Shared Objects," the entities used to store tracking info on your computer:
In an article in today's Wall Street Journal:
"For its part, Macromedia, which recently agreed to be acquired by Adobe Systems Inc., has not received consumer complaints about the use of PIE, says Kevin Lynch, chief software architect."
I didn't complain, I just uninstalled Flash.
HTH, James Arthur