Changing printing presets causes programs to crash

I print documents from several programs: MS Word, preview, Adobe, OpenOffice, and Pages, among others. I have several printing presets saved to handle different printing jobs. The presets include paper feed, picture quality, information like that.
For some reason, whenever I try to change presets, the program I am in suddenly quits. It happens in every program and every file type - word processing doc, JPEG, PDF, whatever.
Any idea what is happening? I have no idea where to start. If I try to edit the presets, any program quits and changes are not saved. Is there a master file of my presets that is corrupted? If so, could I just delete that file and re-create my presets? Or is there something else? Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks

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