Using Pacifist and OSX 10.6.4 Combo updater to restore old CUPS file

I am planning to update to 10.6.5, but am anticipating printing problems with Adobe programs (after reading posts on this discussion board and at MacFixit). I have heard one solution (after updating to 10.6.5) is to replace the new pstops filter in the CUPS system with the old one in 10.6.4 by using Pacifist to extract the old filter from the 10.6.4 Combo updater. When you go to the Combo updater page, there seem to be 2 ways to download it, one from the main page, but then there is another page where it offers to download a different kind of package for use with multiple installations, etc.. Which one should I download? I just want to have the installer package sitting on my desktop so I can extract the pstops filter from it; I don't want it to go ahead on its own and reinstall 10.6.4. Also does anyone have any other advice on using Pacifist to extract the pstops filter? Thank you.

Thanks, Kappy. I did upgrade to 10.6.5 and decided to go ahead and extract the CUPS file from the 10.6.4 updater using Pacifist. The file was indeed in the 10.6.4 combo updater, which I had no trouble downloading (with your reassurance), although it took quite a while to download. I actually used instructions given by MacFixit (which had alerted me to the printing problem in the first place) to do the extraction. All now seems to be working fine with printing in 10.6.5.

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