The installer for Central is broken.. I reported it on Friday, but unfortunately the tech support feature on the Adobe site doesn’t list “Central” so I had to report it as a problem with the closest thing on the list “Flash Player”..  so it might not have gotten noticed or if it was noticed it’s just a very low priority.  Central is a lame duck since Apollo has been discussed quite a bit and is supposed to be out before the end of the year, but I can’t recall seeing anything saying that Central should no longer be installed.  I’m assuming that since the installer badge is still there that something is just temporarily broken.

Why do I care?  I had an app that I developed last year to demo things at a conference.  It’s conference time again and I was asked if the little Central app could be used again.  I checked if it could be installed (it could..at the time) and said sure.  Now I have to scramble to find another solution that will do what I need.  Central has always been a “beta” so it’s always been a gamble and it looks like I got stung by it.  Ugh.  Luckily it’s easy enough to port it over to a standard SWF, publish as EXE, etc.. so the code isn’t totally lost.