Duplex printing on Brother broken update 2.8?

Greetings. I installed Brother Printer Software Update 2.8 the other day, and now printing duplex on my Brother HL-5250DN doesn't work. When printing a multi-page document, I can see the printer acting as if it was printing duplex (by pulling the sheet it just printed back), but nothing appears on the second side. The full document is printed, however; all text is there, just on twice as many sheets as should be needed, with nothing on the second sides of the paper.
Having this fixed soon would save trees. :-)

Solved by re-installing Brother CUPS driver from the Brother web site.
Hopefully Apple will fix their 'software update' - but at least we can work around this for now.
The main Brother download site, with links for all countries, is:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/Public_s/index.html
After paging through the menus to get to the 10.7.2 software for my 8860DN, I only downloaded and installed the CUPS driver.
Perhaps unnecessary (?) but I then deleted the existing 8860DN from my System Preferences and then added it back. All back to normal.
Karl

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