ID CS3 printing woes - again!

OK I'm about to rip out my last few strands of hair on this one.
I am running OS 10.5.5 ID CS 3 5.03 on a MacBook Pro.
In the past I have been able to print to a Konica Minolta BizHub 350 printer with out any problem. Nice quality print and everything just worked.
Over the past few months more and more documents simply refuse to print. I have checked the print set up, installed the latest drivers for the printer and nothing prints. The print dialog comes up like it should, I see the page numbers count off as the file is prepared. I open the printer dialog box and watch the information being sent to the printer and wait, and wait, and wait. Nothing comes out of the printer.
Though several with print issues like to wag their finger at the latest OS X update this problem predates that with me. If I was to point any fingers it would be at Adobe with their updates to InDesign.
One more oddity I frequently have is ID almost crashes. The open windows disappear but ID still shows open in my dock. The only way I can get back to the document is to force quit then re launch ID
My work around has been to export as a pdf and print from Acrobat (with the reduced print area)
Any yes, I have launched all applications including my other Adobe apps on my machine and printed to this printer without any problem.
Can we expect more of this nonsense from ID CS 4 when it comes out?
Regards,

Not sure if you're still checking this posting, but we're in a similar bind now with CS4.
We have a mixed environment of Intel Machines and G5s, all running CS4 and OSX 10.5.8. We used to print to a CREO Rip hooked up to an Ikon Printer and it was swell. We now have a Konica Minolta BizHub Pro C5501 hooked up to a Fiery RIP (which is essentially the same machine as we had before, just newer) and all hell has broke lose.
We've lost the ability to just pick a paper size and print. We have have to go through a very complicated set of menus and choose size in a bunch of settings to get the printer to print our work. A lot of the time it just refuses to output on 11x17 or 12x18. A lot of the times InDesign just hangs when printing and then crashes. Sometimes the files RIP then error out with no reason. Then they print just fine.
My tech guy believes it's an issue with the Fiery. It seems that it's more of a CS4 issue to me after reading some of these posts.
How are you making out now? You probably have CS4.

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