Can only print from certain programs. Started suddenly.

Everything was working just fine and then suddenly I can only print from InDesign and Word. And when I print from InDesign I can't change any settings in the "print" dialog box or the program freezes and crashes. When I try to print from firefox, photoshop, illustrator among others, it freezes and crashes. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the print driver and restarting my computer numerous times and the problem persists. (Unless I am not doing it properly) I go into my printer settings and remove the printer then go back in and reinstall it.
Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated as this is affecting my ability to do my job efficiently. Thanks so much.

How is this...
Date/Time: 2008-06-30 09:39:05 -0600
OS Version: 10.5.3 (Build 9D34)
Architecture: i386
Report Version: 4
Command: Firefox
Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin
Version: 2.0.0.14 (2.0.0.14)
Parent: launchd [107]
PID: 82568
Event: hang
Time: 5.26s
Steps: 27
Process: firefox-bin [82568]
Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin
ADDRESS BINARY
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00c20000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozjs.dylib
00ccd000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libxpcom.dylib
00cd1000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libxpcom_core.dylib
00d8c000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libplds4.dylib
00d96000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libplc4.dylib
00da2000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnspr4.dylib
00dd8000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsmime3.dylib
00dfd000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libssl3.dylib
00e27000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnss3.dylib
00e99000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.dylib
00eee000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libxpcom_compat.dylib
00f2a000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/libmyspell.dylib
012ef000 /System/Library/TextEncodings/Unicode Encodings.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Unicode Encodings
01604000 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudioKit.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudioKit
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16813000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Plug-ins/PrintPDE.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Prin tPDE
169f0000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnssckbi.dylib
16a35000 /System/Library/Extensions/AudioIPCDriver.kext/Contents/Resources/AudioIPCPlugI n.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AudioIPCPlugIn
16a3e000 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleHDAHALPlugIn.bun dle/Contents/MacOS/AppleHDAHALPlugIn
16a55000 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/libspellchecker.dylib
16dc0000 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera
179b5000 /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/AdobePDFPDE800.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFPDE800
192e5000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libSimplifiedChineseConverter.dylib
1962e000 /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player
1b341000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libTraditionalChineseConverter.dylib
1e5c7000 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Print.framewo rk/Versions/Current/Plugins/PrintCocoaUI.bundle/Contents/MacOS/PrintCocoaUI
203ac000 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Print.framewo rk/Versions/A/Plugins/PrintingCocoaPDEs.bundle/Contents/MacOS/PrintingCocoaPDEs
2048c000 /Library/Printers/Xerox/PDEs/FJN.plugin/Contents/MacOS/FJN
70000000 /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
74400000 /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/libPPDLib.dylib
78e00000 /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/libLW8Utils.dylib
ba900000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libJapaneseConverter.dylib
bab00000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libKoreanConverter.dylib

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