Epson scanner compatibility

For years, I've used an Epson Perfection 2400 Photo flatbed scanner with its included excellent EpsonScan software. I can scan photos, negatives, slides and multi-page documents, newspaper articles and more with ease, saving the images as JPEGs, TIFFs or even multi-page PDFs.
Recently, my aging MacBook Pro (2,2 running MacOS 10.6.8) died. I had to quickly find a replacement. I bought a refurbished late-2012 iMac (running MacOS 10.8). It was, of course, inevitable that I would find some things "broken" when I fired up the iMac and started integrating it into my workflow. The Epson scanner turned out to be one of the "broken" items. Epson Scan software will not launch at all now.
Epson tries to funnel MacOS 10.8 users over to Apple's ImageCapture for scanning, but ImageCapture is like going back to the early 1990s when it comes to a scanning workflow. A significant portion of my scanning is multi-page official documents that I scan into PDFs so they can be shared. Epson Scan made that easy.
Am I "fetched up, hard aground" on the shoals of Mountain Lion? It doesn't look like this (scanning) boat is going anywhere. What are my options?
--WA

Epson web site:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid= 14587&prodoid=21643926&infoType=Downloads&detected=yes&platform=OSF_M_X8
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How full is the hard drive that you are trying to save to? Not that it should matter, but have you tried scanning another document?
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This is probably more a Photoshop/Epson compatability problem but I thot I'd post it here anyway, as I'm sure I'm not alone in my struggle..
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LibertyAmy,
Welcome to Apple Support Discussions.
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ICA Scanner Driver
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1. Connect the all-in-one or scanner to your Mac and power it on.
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Note: Software Updates may find multiple updates for your system. You may choose to install all or some of the updates by clicking on Show Details.
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USB
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Ethernet
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