This SEO tips post, for tip number 2 says:

Short relevant TITLE = must. Don’t put “news”, “home page”, or other such stuff in the title tag. Format: [document title] - [site title]

So, assuming this advice is valid, I went ahead and made the change to this website. Here’s how I did it in case anyone else finds it non-obvious.
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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as WordPress at 3:49 PM MST

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Illegal Operation in Plug-in
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The Plug-in performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Firefox.
[ ] Don’t show this message again during this session.
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OK

Here’s a picture.

This forum post sounds like the answer so go knock yourself out. (It sounded like too much work for me this morning so I’m going to just keep clicking the OK button )

Update:
I tryed the instructions from the link above and didn’t have any luck, but here are a few other advice pages to try:
(translated from French!)
Problem with Plugin “Shockwave Flash”
The plugin carried out an illegal operation

Update Update:
Give Hugo’s advice in the comment below a try. It certainly sounds promising.

Update Update Update:
Lukpuk comments below that it may be a virus. He reccomends to run msinfo32.exe and find something weird in loaded modules or autorun. Then try to delete a virus in windows/system32/ (He used Hijack this) during the boot.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Firefox at 1:01 PM MST

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Are you trying to install a an application or game like this interesting sounding Rocket Commander game? And the installer hits you with this confusing error:
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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as win32, Other at 11:19 PM MST

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I was wondering how to include material gleaned from class notes into a references or bibliography section of a paper. I did some searches and all I found were these four (professors?) saying not to cite class notes!

If anyone knows of a better answer please leave a comment. Otherwise, see if you can convince yourself to listen to these people:
http://www.utpb.edu/aguila/Document_files/references.htm
http://www.williams.edu/Chemistry/epeacock/EPL_CHEM_102/Info.102.html
http://home.wlu.edu/~mahonj/WritingPaper.htm
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/paperref.htm

And no, they don’t recommend what to do instead.

Here’s what I searched for:

1. “reference class notes cite bibliography”
2. “Cite your class notes”
3. reference class notes cite bibliography

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other at 7:00 AM MST

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Apparently there is no simple method of saying “limit 1″ as in:
update social_security_benefits set monthly_payment=0 where payee='poor old lady' limit 1
(That’s how you would do it in MySQL for example.)

So here are two work-arounds for T-SQL (MS SQL Server) that my co-worker came up with:
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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as win32, Other at 4:58 PM MST

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