Colorsync can't repair bad printer profiles

I'm getting really bad color qulaity out of my HP B8850 photo printer, but only when I print to photo paper (on plain paper prints the quality is fine). Seems like a color profile issue so I finally came acrossn Colorsync and got "bad profiles" for all of my B8800 icc files. I've tried repairing them numerous times but colorsync can't repair them (I tried unlocking them, too and that didn't work). Any suggestions on how to fix them? Here's an example of one of the error messages...
/Library/Printers/hp/Profiles/photosmart/HP PSPro B8800-Advanced Photo Glossy.icc
   Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'dmdd': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
   Tag 'dmdd': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
thanks for any suggestions/help!
cheers,
Aaron

I deleted all of the burried HP software and drivers and did a clean reinstall of it. Still getting the same bad profiles and bad image prints on photo paper. I switched to a different HP driver for a different series of printer and those are coming up bad as well.
/Library/Printers/hp/Profiles/photosmart/HP PSPro B8800-Advanced Photo Glossy.icc
   Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'dmdd': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
   Tag 'dmdd': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
Also have a bad Nikon Profile...
/Library/Application Support/Nikon/Profiles/NKLch2.icm
   Header connection space is not correct.
   Header data space is not correct.
   Header profile class is not correct.
   Tag 'A2B0': Number of input channels is not correct.
   Tag 'A2B0': Number of output channels is not correct.
   Tag 'B2A0': Number of input channels is not correct.
   Tag 'B2A0': Number of output channels is not correct.
This is driving me crazy. I'm getting bad prints and there seems to be no answer. Could it be just a colorsync/vendor matching issue that I've missed. Anything I should think about in terms of settings that I'm missing?
Help!!!!!!!

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