<chuckles> Nope gothic not crap made sense to me anyways. Although making sense to me does not make it sensical, if that makes any sense.
There is NO login prompt on the site unless you choose to become a 'power player' and pay bucks, I am against paying for things I can get for free, so I have never even investigated this.
The part that worries me is that Macromedia is a very widely distributed software, and since there were indeed text files in the directory pointing to various websites, and I never was asked if I wanted this to happen....well it's kinda funny.

After work today I am going to shoot Macromedia and MiniClip.com e-mails and see if they have anything to say about it.

If this is cookie-type behavior could it not be exploited in some way?
Would the problem stop if Marcomedia's program permissions were changed to allow only incoming traffic?

For now plan A.) is to wipe macromedia and just not do it anymore, but I worry about some deeper and more sinister possibility.