CS2 documents print yellow ink only

I'm on a Mac running OSX 10.4.11. When printing InDesign CS2 docs to my Canon i80 printer the documents printed out gray instead of black. Today I was prompted to install InDesign April 2005 Compatibility Updater. I did so hoping this would be the fix I need, but now my documents print only in yellow ink. Other documents produced in Word, etc. print normally in black. What in the world is going on?

Does the entire document print in Yellow, or only what should be on the yellow plate..?
If so have a look at the Output panel in the print dialog and see if you have Separations selected.

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