CS3 Colour Management with Leopard

Hi, I have a Canon Pixma iP4200 (driver 4.8.3) Leopard 10.5.2 and Photoshop 10.0.1, Surprisingly I haven't printed anything since Tiger but I printed something out yesterday and it looked horrible, real muddy look to the picture with a magenta cast over it.
Why is this, anyone else have a problem getting the printer to print what's on the screen in PS3???
Its really bugging me because I spend so long colour correcting my images only yo print and see they look horrible.
ANY ideas on how to fix this would be much appreciated.
p.s. I'm not too brill on PS!

I have gone from PSE 2 to 3 to 4 successfully and used old photoshop and the original lightroom beta all worked successfully. there is obviously a reason why the same file looks different when printed with PSE4 and PSE6
whatever the books say when adobe changes a release they must not change the way colours come out if you use a previously created file. if they do then a lot of artists/photograpers/graphic designers will be wasting time modifying images
I have been in the DP business too many years to accept that...
note adobe did not say I had a problem or they had one they only said can you send us some samples of the printouts. I also included a CD with the files and suggested they print them with both versions of PSE if I was wrong I would have expected to be told. no answer implies they are still working on it.....
cheers elo

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