Can't open printer sw

I have an HP C4280 USB'd to my Time Capsule. Today I tried to open the HP Photosmart Studio sw in my dock. But as soon as it opens it "quits unexpectedly" and leaves me with a Problem Report which includes this:
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 3
Is there anyway to fix it?

So I renamed 3 HP printer plist files (com.hp.keywords.plist, com.hp.Photosmart.Studio.plist, and com.hp.printerutility.plist) and did a Software Update with restart and 2 of the plists were updated while com.hp.printerutility.plist was not. Trying to open HP Photosmart Studio from my dock still results in "quit unexpectedly."
I checked permissions on these files and I have Read and Write permission on all 3 of them.
I also looked around and found a Printers directory which contains only 1 file named HP Photosmart C4200 series.app. I can open this file and it tells me things like "The black print cartridge is low on ink" which is what I was looking for in the first place.
I'm new to Mac but I'm poking around and right clicked on the icon in the dock and was able to select Open in Finder and got a "Device Utilities" folder opened with 10 HP .app files including HP Photosmart Studio.app. Clicking that takes me right to "quit unexpectedly" again. So I renamed it and am going to do another Software Upgrade now.

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