Canon S820 prints very cyan - fine setting only

I haven't printed in fine photo quality for a long time .. long before I upgraded to Tiger. Now, I find that when I set the highest quality photo printing in the print dialog, the Canon 820 prints very, very dark, and very cyan - like a dark cyan filter over the otherwise normal photo.
When I reduce the quality to less than "fine", printing from either Preview or Photoshop CS2, the photos print normally. (I have installed the Photoshop CS3 beta - Could that have screwed up the printer drivers?)
I just installed the Canon 4.15 driver from Canon on my 10.4.8 system and that doesn't help. My printer utility seems to give a correct test pattern, though I haven't tried deep cleaning.
Can anyone help? I'm trying to print out some Christmas holiday photos! Thanks in advance, Tom
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I'm at the end of my rope. I tried deep cleaning, turning the printer on and off, rebooting, etc. Still in the fine quality settings for the Canon 820, I get a terrible cyan, dark image. In the lower quality settings in the print dialog, I get a perfect image.
I wonder if the photo cyan and magenta are only being used in the high quality settings and something is wrong with the photo cyan channel in the printer.
Do I have to buy a new printer?

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