Help Page Setup Printers differ from actual printer selected

Hi everybody I am an newbie to this forum so please be Gentle
i have an end user with a curious Issue in Adobe Photoshop Only, all other adobe packages correctly
The problem
User goes to print Selects his printer from the List
then selects page setup and up pops a with a different printer "properties"
does not happen to all printers in the list
I have confirmed the following
Printer Page properties are not listing the default printer.
is not isolated to one single printer from the list
Page properties produce different models from printer list
Happens under a restricted account and administrator accounts
Have tried re-installing package
Additional information
Computers are part of a Windows 2003 Domain
Computers are running Windows XP Sp3 and are Updated to current patched
This one has me Stumped.
Cheers
Frenchwalker

FYI, this is a user-user help forum, and while some Adobe personnel drop by here occasionally, you may have better luck contacting Adobe support directly.
Perhaps another XP user in a domain environment will see this message (now freshly bumped to the top courtesy moi) and let you know whether they see similar issues.
I have heard that with Photoshop CS5 a fundamentally different printing interface is being used by the application, and this has yielded a whole host of new printing problems, from color management issues to multiple copy settings not being honored until the second attempt to print. I don't know how much of this applies to XP though.
-Noel

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