I can confirm this on up-to-date Feisty. Plugins are now installed in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Also the update to mozilla-mplayer 3.31-5 installed galeon. Here the output from synaptic history:
Commit Log for Thu Nov 23 18:49:18 2006 Upgraded the following packages: mozilla-mplayer (3.31-4) to 3.31-5 Installed the following packages: galeon (2.0.2-3ubuntu1) galeon-common (2.0.2-3ubuntu1) -- mplayer plugin does not work https://launchpad.net/bugs/73103 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs