HP Photosmart C3180 prefs all screwed up

After doing the latest 10.5.6 updates, the printer has gotten all screwed up. It now prints in magenta and white. it won't remember presets and changes the presets I do have. I want to do fast draft B&W printing for invoices from Quickbooks and it keeps reverting to photopaper, high res and color ink. Is there any way to erase the prefs and start over?
TIA
Edwin
PS This makes my wife and her office staff hate me for doing updates on the office computer as this happens almost every time.
It's a 2.5 Ghz Intel iMac.

If the above doesn't work see if there is a Quickbooks preference plist in home/library/preferences. Trash it and relaunch Quickbooks.

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