Print Center Problems

Ever since I upgraded to 10.1.4, I can't print anywhere but from classic. This isn't usually an issue, since I use Word 98, but I found this out the other day when I tried to print from iPhoto. Tested some other Carbon and Cocoa apps, and it turns out I can only print from classic. Also, the Print Center won't open without the beachball, so I can't even see what's wrong. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740, the most recent driver of which is included with OS X. Epson hasn't made a new one yet. Any suggestions?

Edit: now that I think about it, I remember this problem appearing right after I upgraded to 10.1.4. I didn't think about it then, and figured a restart would fix it. Never checked up on it until recently.

 

Numbers added for the sake of clarity

1. Doesn't work either way

2. No, I have SETI@home running all night until an MP3 alarm clock wakes me up in the morning.

3. Several times, both before and after I noticed the problem.

4. Yes

5. Your assumption is correct

6. Tried that

7. Ran fsck in single user mode after I discovered the problem, fixed something. Ran it until nothing was reported wrong. Still didn't work. I don't have Norton or TechTool for OS X, and the problem doesn't appear in OS 9

8. Two computers experiencing the same problem actually, an iMac DV+ w/320 RAM, DVD drive, etc. and an iBook 500, with 128 RAM, DVD drive. One note, probably irrelevant: The iMac, being older than the iBook, didn't come with OS X. When I got the iBook, I wanted to put X on the iMac. Took forever, but I finally found a program (Carbon Copy Cloner) to transfer the data, and I used an external HD as a middleman. However, now that I think about it, the problem appeared after I upgraded to 10.1.4, and before I used CCC. I never followed up on it, thinking it was a side-effect of the upgrade.

MacAztec:
Is there a way to reinstall JUST the Print Center? I ask because I don't have an OS X installer CD (courtesy of Fry's .), and I don't have a workable CD burner to make an install CD out of the 10.1 upgrade CD. I guess, if I had to, I could put the CD burner I do have into a FireWire enclosure, since only the USB form is incompatible with OS X, but I'd prefer not to.

Oh yeah, no, my CD burner is not hooked up at the same time as the printer, and yes, I have tried switching the printer from the keyboard USB port to the main one.

 

1. Don't underestimate the power of fsck.

2. If you'd read beyond that, you would have seen that my answer is "no" I don' own the OS X versions of any. I will, however, go run Norton in 9.

 

^ 6.02, today and yesterday, Disk Doctor and Speed disk. It still doesn't work.

 

D@mn Murphy's Laws

OK, I took the plunge and successfully did a drive transplant so I could burn a CD for an OS X installer. Then Murphy's law caught up. I couldn't find teh damn CD I was supposed to copy. *sigh* Will it ever end.