Epson printer difficulties

Hi guys
first of all I am new to the Mac platform after years of using a PC, and so this is a problem that I had with an Epson d88 printer. I installed the drivers from the Epson web site but for some reason my printer could not detect them. I rang up Epson support and they talked me through the following: -
Drag and drop the Epson printer utility in the trash
Click Macintosh hd/library folder/ printers/Epson and delete the contents of the folder
Click Macintosh hd/receipts and look for an Epson pkg and delete (non found)
Open disk utility and choose repair file permissions
I then reinstalled the Epson driver again and still no joy until I rang up apple support and was told to switch everything off and on again starting with the printer. At last success, the printer drivers were finally detected.
My question is are the procedures I followed above correct? Have I unknowingly damaged my Mac? Have I done the equivalent of going into the registry on a windows pc and deleted files? Can someone be so kind to please advise?
Also I have heard of an application called appzapper which completely uninstall applications. Has anyone got any experience with this? Does it cause more harm than good? Is it worth it?
Thanking you for any advise/help in advance
DinoC
IMAC 24 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You have not damaged your Mac or messed up your software. In fact, a simple restart might have set the printer up without all of the permutations you went through in the first place.
You can also install same or higher version software/drivers (including the OS) on top of the existing software without going through an uninstall. In fact, if things get too complicated or the system doesn't cooperate for some reason, just reinstall the Combined updater over your present system and then run the repair permissions routine. That takes all of about 5 minutes to complete.
OS X is incredibly robust and takes a lot of neglect to give you many problems. You might want to invest in an external firewire HD from somebody like OWC and duplicate your entire internal HD and update it routinely as I do with Retrospect or some such quality program. You can then boot from the external hard drive to do maintenance as required.
In fact, simply dragging the software from the application folder to the trash is all that is required to uninstall 90% of most programs. Then do a search in Spotlight to find the preferences and other items the installer may have thrown around and drag them to the trash.
Only core level programs like TechTool Pro and anti virus programs take more effort to uninstall and in 90% of the cases, the installer for these more complex programs come with uninstallers you can run by selecting the uninstall option.
OS X is simpler to maintain and keep in top condition than Windows. You have just simplified your life tenfold.

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