HP UPD 5.3 - some clients print garbage

Server: Windows 2008 R2 SP1.
Clients: XP SP3.
Yesterday I upgraded from HP UPD PS 5.2.6.9321 to 5.3.1.10527.  This morning I find out that tons of users are now printing "garbage".  This garbage is actually raw PostScript code from all types of applications.  The kicker to this problem
is that it appears to be PC and/or user based.  For example, WorkstationA prints out garbage but WorkstationB prints just fine -- they both are using the same queue on the print server.  Deleting all HP printers from the client and
re-installing from the print server does not fix it.  If I change the print driver on the print server for the problem queue from HP Universal Printing PS (v5.3) to HP Universal Printing PS (v5.2), then the XP clients can print just fine again.
I've contacted HP and found out that other clients are reporting this problem too.  Awesome.
While I wait for HP to investigate/resolve the problem, what would cause some XP clients to print raw postscript while others work fine?

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