CUPS in 10.5.7 and managing print jobs

I know that 10.5.7 modified CUPS. Printing directly still works fine (I'm battling other issues with printer sharing but that's a different topic that I'll tackle after this one is sorted) however when trying to manage print jobs via CUPS I see no jobs at all... not completed jobs, not current jobs, not jobs waiting in the queue.
I rolled back to 10.5.6 and everything works fine. Applied the combo update and the problem came back immediately.
I tried replacing the current cupsd.conf file with one from when the system worked... no change.
I'm seeing the same problem on numerous Intel iMacs in a lab setting as well as on my personal MacBook Pro.
It's difficult to manage print jobs that you can't see. Any ideas?
Bob Smith

I may well do that but that will be a very time consuming process considering 25 computers are affected and it would force the re-do of a number of other tedious non Apple updates that can't be batch done via Apple Remote Desktop. I don't want to go down that road if there's a chance that I don't have to. Since Apple has chosen to modify CUPS I assume that sticking with 10.5.6 is only postponing the inevitable. I might as well deal with it now if possible. I'm not giving up that quickly.

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