Issue with running Lexmark Prestige Pro805 printer with iMac running 10.3.9

Thought I'd share this with you in case anyone else runs into this problem.
Recently bought a Lexmark Prestige Pro 805 printer to service a home network. Had no issues with the printer using 10.6 on MacBook Pro, 10.5 on Intel iMac and also running on Laptop with Windows XP all running off same network via USB connection into a Time Machine.
However when tried running this off an iMac PPC using 10.3.9 although I could print after initial install subsequent prints after logging off and on hit the problem of "Unable to read CUPS raster data".
Lexmark driver updates and firmware updates failed to fix issue and contacted Lexmark who advised me to do a complete uninstall and re-install but to same effect. They then determined this was a CUPS issue and I should contact Apple. Looked on this forum and found a message posted in Nov 2005 which suggested doing a disk repair off the original install disk in order to repair corrupted CUPS directories (simple to say after 6 years - where exactly did I put those disks?).
Anyway did this and indeed both permissions and disks needed repair and it fixed the issue.
As it took me a while to get to the answer hopefully by posting this if anyone else comes across this issue they can save some time!

Thanks for posting your solution. May help another Mac user in the future.
 Cheers, Tom

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