FIery plugin causing applications to freeze

I have a Mac running 10.5.8 that I have installed a new Konica Minolta C280, Fiery IC-412 on. Basic printing works fine. In order to access account track you have to access the Fiery plugin. When you click the plugin whatever application your in freezes. This is only happening on one of the Mac's, the other 9 work fine. Is there a way to troubleshoot just a Mac printing plugin?

One problem we had with our Fiery controllers is that if the plugin was still written for PPC Mac's, then it wouldn't work correctly on an Intel Mac. The solution was to get a Universal Binary version of the driver, which had updated plugins.
If you are already using a UB version of driver, then the plugins are often located in the vendors folder; HD > Library > Printers. Not sure if you will need to look for a KM folder or something related to EFI, the makers of Fiery RIPs. Inside should be a PDEs folder (which stands for Print Dialog Extensions) and inside this folder will be the Fiery plugins. If you do a Get Info on the plugins, you can also confirm if they are Universal rather than PPC.
One other thing that may help. Try running a repair disk permissions. This is accessed via Disk Utility.
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