CS5 prints differently with Illustrator, Acrobat and Photoshop on Xerox

Hi There,
I have recently upgraded from CS4 Windows to a new iMac with CS5. I was getting good prints out of the PC although when we switched to Mac CS5 I have been getting de saturated prints, no colour concistancy across progams and it is near impossible to colour callibrate.
I have double checked that I am using the correct driver for the Xerox C320 Document Centre, I have experimented with changing colour profiles. I just can't get a good colour out of any of the applications. Illustrator is the worst. The prints are coming out nothing like when they show on screen. I am really confused as all of the IT experts we have consulted with had advised us that printing on the Mac would produce a better print that the PC although this is not the case.
If anyone has any ideas of how to fix this problem it would be greately appreciated.
Thank you,

Sluggish performance in general.... sometimes, after having left Illustrator running overnight... I will move my mouse and the cursor lags behind the physical movement of the mouse... almost like it's a delayed, slow motion thing.
Do something for your CO2 footprint and turn off your machine when not using it. Seriously, electricity must be too cheap over there in the US or wherever you are from...?! Aside from that little thing, letting your computer run without it doing anything will eventually send stuff into hibernation which may never recover on wake-up again. Mustn't even be AI itself, could be some driver crashing in energy saving mode or something similar and in turn this could have ill effects such as you observe...
Memory Hog in general.... I have an i7 intel processor, a 10k SAS boot drive, and 12 big of ram.... what MORE could they want?
As long as AI itself is 32bit, none of that matters much, I'm afraid. It will never use more than 2.8GB.
Yes, my video card far exceeds Adobe's recommendations and has all the latest driver updates....
But is it the "right" driver? Experience proves that the newest one isn't necessarily the best choice. Not that it should matter much to AI, but you never know...
All that aside of course very much al lthe people here on this forum would agree that it's about time for a 64bit version and sorting out several of the fundamental issues, but if and when that happens, nobody can tell. You could simply assume now that CS5.5 has hit the roads it will be one year to CS6 (if they keep the cycle to 1 and 2 years, respectively) and maybe then things will look better...
Mylenium

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