Epson 3170 scanner problem

Apple has effectively killed my Epson 3170 scanner. I have followed most of the post here trying to solve this problem. I have deleted Epson scan and downloaded the driver from Epson that is supposed to work with image capture, but it will not work. This is extremely frustrating when you had a perfectly good scanner and then you upgrade to 10.6 and download the apple drivers for Epson and then it no longer works. If anyone has an idea I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. I apologize if this is a repeat, but I have searched and cannot find a solution. HELP!

I had the same problem but just found the solution in another thread.
You will need to replace /Library/Image Capture/Devices/EPSON Scanner.app with an earlier version of the EPSON Scanner.app and then (for the time being) don't let Software Update install the Epson printer/scanner update. In my case, I didn't have the EPSON Scanner.app at all after installing Snow Leopard.
There's some more info and a download link for a June 2009 version (v 5.0) of the (driver) app in this forum message: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12031583&#12067887
So far, so good: I can confirm that my 3170 is working with Image Capture again using the downloaded app.

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