Mozilla 1.6 install on SuSE Personal 9.0

Newbie here with SuSE 9.0 Personal edition and Linux in general. What is the best way to replace the Mozilla 1.4 that comes with the SuSE install CD to the newer version of 1.6 and have it work as 1.4 does. Extracted the tar.gz and ran the install file, but the flash won't work even downloading the flash plug-in from the Macromedia site. Reason the new 1.6 version has a newer ad blocker where you can stop flash ads, but also want to view flash applications like the weather radar loops on the U.S. NWS sites. Install the flash in 1.6, go back to the NWS radar loop and it tells me I need the flash plug-in. Could be Mozilla 1.6 was installed in the wrong directory? /users Jerry