Kde printing and cups-pdf

This was working before, but I don't know what changed, nor where to look to find anything.
What's happening is that anything printing through KDE's print system (ie Konqueror, Kate, KMail) produces defunct .pdf files when I print to my cups-pdf printer. There are no errors in /var/log/cups/cups-pdf.log. The only thing I do notice is that upon inspection of the resulting pdf in a text editor is that it appears only the header is written, there doesn't seem to be any data written after that.
This all does work from Firefox, and I can print a test page from within the cups setup (http://127.0.0.1:631), so I know that it does work.
Anyone have a clue what KDE setting might be goofed up?

I'd kinda forgotten about this. It worked for me after I deleted by .kde folder. (I was doing that for other reasons) But only for a while, it's now not working again, so I hope what you figured out also works for me!
http://personalpages.tds.net/cupsd.conf
http://personalpages.tds.net/cups-pdf.conf

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