Epson print choices missing in Leopard

Hi
My i700 prints (standard) in Leopard but the print choices (border-less a.s.o.) I had in Tiger are gone. When I open Print & Fax/Driver the printer is grayed out with:
"To take full full advantage of your printer's options, confirm that they are accurately shown here"
Since the original software is incompatible with Leopard I don't know how to get back the 6 options I used to have. Help, please.
W.W.

I have an Epson Stylus CX4200 that is connected to a G3 Imac running Tiger. I have several setups I created including B&W good, better, best, Color good, better, best, and DVD labels, etc.
I share this printer over a DLink wireless router with a G4 Powerbook running Leopard. Before I installed Leopard, I had access to all those setups on this laptop, when running in Tiger. When I upgraded, I lost the ability to print in anything but standard mode. (That was after reading a bunch of discussion items in this forum, and going into the terminal and doing some code work)
I tried to create a new printer and use some of the other Epson drivers, in case one would work with the CX4200, and unlock the ability to make presets.
There are too many Epson drivers to go thru, but I did try at least ten. They did give me more menus to setup presets, but when it can to actual print what I had setup, it wouldn't send it to the printer.
Any thoughts other than waiting on Apple to bugfix this? No new drivers at Epson.
Thanks,
Paul

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