chicken and egg problem?

[Jeffrey Ross]

bought a new machine (yeah) its a dual core pentium D.  So I figured I'd
load the 64 bit version of Linux, great it works fine.  I attempt to start
loading plugins for my browser and find that they are only 32 bit apps,
some work and others like the Adobe Acrobat won't even run.  I got the
Flash player to install by modifying the install script to ignore the
hardware type.

Am I better off at this point just running the 32 bit version of Linux or
am I missing something here in how I load applications?

TIA, Jeff