CAUTION! SourceForge, Linux Foundation printer drivers on MacBook Pro Retina

I have installed Gutenprint, USBTB, and HPIJS on my brand new MacBook Pro Retina in an attempt to get it to function with my HP Officejet K80 printer, to no avail.....and now they will not uninstall. To make matters worse, the uninstaller for all of these drivers actually installs another complete set of duplicate drivers on the computer. I now have 6 independent sets of HPIJS drivers on the computer. Further research has revealed that none of these third party drivers are likely to produce any success on OS X 10.8.4 anyway. After installing these drivers and attempting all of the various combinations including adding a usb to parallel adapter (K80 has both usb and parallel ports) with no success, I decided to purchase a new printer (HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus). I now want these drivers off of the computer! All attempts to run the uninstall routines that downloaded with the original drivers have simply installed a duplicate set of drivers (with a .1, .2, .3 etc. extension).
These drivers came from SourceForge.net and The Linux Foundation. I now question whether they are even valid drivers or some sort of bogus software.

UDATE:
I sent a detailed email to SourceForge.net at sfnet_ops as indicated for help on the sourceforge website. They sent a return email that they are only the hosting provider but redirected me to the exact project on sourceforge for help: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/support.
Unfortunately, this project does not indicate anyway to get help....as stated on that web page "Unfortunately, this project hasn't indicated the best way to get help."
I have also found now that a previous unrelated and installed download is now seems to be missing from my computer though I can not specifically state that it is due to my attempts to use the HPIJS uninstaller.
Is there another way to uninstall these drivers that now amount to junk (and possibly malicious) software?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Does Mac have any general uninstallers that will work?

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I Want to use luxrender and luxmark on windows too
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