Elements 8 Editior will not print !!

I am extremely annoyed at Adobe as Elements Editor (8.0) will not print!!  I have seen a number of complaints about this and I have tried multiple things to fix the problem.  I own many different Adobe products (Design Suite 5, Reader, Acrobat, Elements) as well as many other programs (Office 03, 07, and 10, Corel Suite of products, many photo related programs, etc.) and they all work fine on all te printers attached to my computer.  Even Elements organizer works perfectly.
With the Elements Editor I get an error box that starts with “Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printing a document you need to install a printer”.
Another post to this forum suggested using the Microsoft XPS document writer print driver.  I tried that and it did get me a bit farther in that I finally was able to get the print dialog box up; however, whenever I selected another printer I got an error message telling me there was a fatal program error and I had to eventually quit and re-start elements.
I have looked for Elements updates – and none are available.  Someone suggesting re-loading the program and I really do not want to do that as the program works perfectly (as dies the organizer) except for printing.  I have recently updated the print driver so that cannot be the problem and as I said – you can print directly from the organizer.
To make matters worse I got so frustrated looking for a web address or e-mail for sending my complaint to Adobe that I gave up – none could be found.
Can anyone let me in on the secret as to how to print, or get the editor to recognize the printer, from Elements Editor?
Thanks – Mike

Mike,
You state: " I have recently updated the print driver so that cannot be the problem and as I said – you can print directly from the organizer."
I have been led to believe that the print engines for Editor and Organizer are not the same, even though they are marketed within the same program. It may be that the driver for the printer antedates the production of PSEv.8.
Have you tried using another printer (of recent vintage)  for printing from Editor?

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