Help! - Printing via Photoshop CS3 to a Canon ip1800 printer

Hi
Please be gently with me as i'm new to a Mac............
Prior to my purchase I would print images via Adobe Photoshop CS using Windows OS to a Canon ip 1800 printer and would be sufficiently happy with the results for home printing.
Since purchasing a Mac things have all gone horribly wrong! I am now either producing washed out prints or one's with weird and wonderful colours.
The only reasonable results I have been able to obtain are by either printing in iphoto or by letting the printer manage colour.
This is my current workflow
Photoshop Cs3 edit image
File print
Colour management Document: Select profile Adobe RGB/ SRG (tried both)
Colour handling: Photoshop handles colour
Printer profile: Canon ip1800 series SP2 (For photo paper plus Glossy 11 pp-201)
Rendering intent: Perceptual (tried all to be fair)
Black point compensation: /
Print
Printer: Canon ip1800 series
Preset:Standard
Colour matching (no control all greyed out but led to believe this is correct)
Colour Sync (circle with a dot) Canon colour matching (circle)
Print
Awful result !
I may be doing something completely obviously wrong but this is the same workflow I have previously followed but without the options in the printer driver. I'm guessing but think there might be some double profiling going on. I have had a quick try in lightroom 2 with very similar results.
Any help would be appreciated as its driving me mad!!
Many thanks in anticipation of your help
Steve

Hi
Thanks for the reply
I'm currently using OSX 10.6.5 Snow leopard with what assumed was the latest Canon driver 10.30.3.0..........should I be using 10.26?
Kind regards
Steve

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