Color control in printing: Aperture mayhem with Epson printer

With monitors calibrated and colorsync profiles loaded for my Epson 1280 printer, Photoshop prints are as close to screen as possible.
Aperture starts off with something strange: each profile for my Epson appears 3X in the menu. When selecting the profile that matches my printer and paper, the result is more than a color cast. It's more like a colorized image. I can get closer by selecting profiles that don't match my paper type, but always with a cast.
Is there a trick to getting Aperture to be reliable and as good as Photoshop?

(These aren't Epson's instructions, but might be helpful regardless)
For some Epson printers, the drivers shipped with Tiger are more current that the ones on the Epson web site. You wouldn't want to delete the drivers, but - for example - if you move from Firewire to USB, or Airport, the system can get confused.
I've found that deleting the Epson printers in Print Center (and resetting the printing subsystem if necessary or deleting and installing drivers) isn't enough, but that you also have to eradicate everything inside
/Library/Printers/EPSON/Preferences/
where it remembers printer models, ports and settings.
In addition, ColorSync remembers your profiles for deleted printers in the (hidden) file
/Library/Preferences/.Globalpreferences.plist
DON'T delete this file, just edit it and get rid of the deleted devices (ColorSyncDevices/Device-prtrxxxx)

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