Epson R200 looses print options

I have an Epson R200 that I've been using happily with a G5 running Tiger. I regularly print photos to it. A couple weeks ago - after nothing else had changed - it stopped giving me all my print options. I get the standard number of copies and output to file, etc but I don't get the Epson specific options - like individual color saturation and more specific types of paper.
At first, I assumed it was a driver issue and I downloaded and reinstalled Epson's latest drivers for this printer. Didn't work. I then deleted all traces of previous Epson drivers and preferences and tried again to no avail. I logged in as a different user and had the same problem.
I spent time on the phone with Epson and Apple who had me try basic things before pointing the finger at each other. Finally, I archived and installed Tiger again, did all my updates, reinstalled the printer and everything worked - yay!
Until about two days ago. Again nothing has changed - nothing new installed, no updates - but suddenly all my Epson specific options are missing. Apple and Epson are still no help. So to you members of the forum I say, "Help!"
Thanks!
20 iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

These threads may help:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=810557&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2040003#2040003
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2086739#2086739

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