HELP! Printing colors wrong for CS4 vs CS3

Every time I have to print something, I have to use CS3 because when I use CS4 the colors come out slightly brighter, flatter and PINKER. I use the exact same print settings as CS3 but it's always wrong. I'm forced to use CS3 for printing only.
My color profiles are correct so it's not that. One programs prints correctly, the other doesn't.
Am I an idiot who's missing something that's right in front of my face?
HELP!
Thanks!

CS4 uses the correct path for Leopard and Snow Leopard. If your
printer driver is not updated correctly (something Epson seems to have
a problem with) for Leopard or Snow Leopard, when application manages
color is selected, instead of forcing the driver to No Colormanagement
(which is how it works with correctly updated drivers) the driver gets
forced to ColorSync which results in double profiling. Also people
have reported where the drivers did not install correctly or add
correctly and the media settings and profiles did not register with
ColorSync correctly. You can check this in the ColorSync Utility.
You can always try the colorsync utility workaround of telling
colorsync to use the same printer profile you choose in the print
dialog of the application.

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