Artisan 50 on Lion

Trying to (temporarily) re-install my Epson Artisan 50 printer on my 24" iMac, and I can't get it to work! I've got the latest drivers for Epson printers from Software Update, when I turn the printer on, it asks me if I want to dl the latest drivers and it appears to go okay, then, when I try to add the printer in Print & Scan it attempts to dl drivers and fails, saying the drivers are unavailable and to contact the manufacturer for the latest drivers. Going to the Epson site leads me instructions that tell me to use Software Update to get the latest drivers!
If I ignore all the instructions to dl the latest drivers (since I went to Downloads at Support and manually dl'd the Epson drivers) and try to print to the printer (even a test page) it claims the printer is not attached or is offline. Furthermore, the Epson Utility won't even recognize the presence of the A50, listing *only* the Photo 1400 that is currently unavailable.
I've tried everything I can think of! Does anyone have any ideas?
Geoff

Well, John, I don't know if that was the magic formula, since the immediate result was the same (including a bunch of lines in the CUPS error log indicating the lack of files that I could actually see were right where it said they weren't!), but by doing some more flailing around I found a combination that now works! Yay.
The cable is the same one I'd just the previous day been using with my Photo 1400, so it shouldn't have been the culprit.
Thanks again!
Geoff

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