Dark prints with Epson R1800

Having upgraded to Snow Leopard, when I print to my Epson R1800 from Lightroom or Photoshop, the prints are extremely dark, and a bit oversaturated. I am printing by choosing a paper profile, and turning off color management in the driver. This worked perfectly before Snow Leopard. If I tell Lightroom to let the printer manage color, then use Epson Vivid with Gamma 1.8, the print is reasonably good. But if I can not choose a profile, I will be limited to only Epson papers.
The latest Apple update for Epson print drivers only contains the Gutenprint driver for the R1800, so I downloaded the latest Snow Leopard drivers directly from Epson. I believe I thoroughly removed the existing drivers before installing.
I am seeing some discussion about this here and other places online, but no solutions that work so far.

Wait a second, I just realized something very important. If you go to the Epson Drivers page for the R1800...
http://tinyurl.com/2gp4g9
The first link there is a Drivers and Utilities Combo Package for MacOS 10.6 (i.e. Snow Leopard). But the driver that this combo package actually contains is version 6.12, which as listed further down the page, is from 12/18/2007.
So in other words, there really is no Snow Leopard support for the R1800.
Also, the R1800 is not in the product list on the Epson Snow Leopard page...
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportSnowLeopard.jsp

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