InDesign Problems when Printing to Xerox 700i Digital Color Press Running Fiery EFI

Mac OS 10.9.3, up to date Adobe CC InDesign.
Every time I print to the Xerox using Fiery features, afterward I cannot save.  If I close the file and try to re-open it, I am told that another user is modifying the document.  If I restart, then go into my file folder and discard the idlk file that was not removed when I closed, I can once again save changes etc, until I print again.  Then no deal...
Today I installed Indesign CC (2014).  Every time I print an Indesign file using the Xerox with the Fiery features, the application prints, then crashes.  I was hoping the new version would be better.  For me it is WORSE!
I have written nine books with InDesign.  They are each 500+ page manuals.  I have tried to find help for a year and can't seem to find it.  I am close to telling my partners that we need to find a new solution.  I cannot take the extreme hit to my productivity that I have taken trying to work with this software package.  Seems a shame since I've been through several versions of InDesign over the last 12 years.  Changing will be extremely painful, but I may just need to bite the bullet.

Yes, I have Fiery Hot Folders Console.  That is certainly an alternative that should work as I can then avoid having to choose Fiery Features from the print dialog box in order to choose the paper tray and other features I need.
I am about to try a clean install of OS 10.9.3, and I am not the least bit happy about it.  Adobe CC is my main set of go-to applications for my work, and those are the only applications that give me ANY problems with printing.  I have forked out real money on different versions since I started using Adobe in the late 1990's, and my troubles seem to increase with every new release.

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