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Pai Mei, I think that a series of smaller floods is a much better explanation than one single one when there's no geological evidence to support the latter, unless you want to count rising sea levels and river levels at the end of the last ice age. Those could indeed be seen as a global flood. Also, there's no reason to assume that if these were local floods that they all occurred at the same time. A series of major floods over 1000 years would easily leave the same stories.
Humans didn't exist when all the continents were together. We weren't even a promising species. That's the time of the dinosaur - and not even the really cool ones like T. Rex. We're talking a couple of billion years ago (roughly). Your suggestion that the myth dates to then is stretching a little.
I've never heard of South American tobacco being found with Egyptian mummies. Can you tell me which tombs or who found it? It doesn't seem plausible to me.
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