Keep losing my print driver and printer quits working

Have no idea what's going on.  Recently, I can't keep my printer workng.  It worked fine since I got it approx 1 year ago.  It's a Canon Imageclass D400 Series combined printer, copier, fax and scanner.
Now after I reboot both sometimes it will work, but only one time.  The next time it won't work again.  Sometimes, I reboot both and it still won't recognize the printer.  I'm dumbfounded as to what's going on.  I put in the CD to reinstall the driver but it says that I can't reinstall it because it's already installed.  In System Prefs I go to print and try the utility but it doesn't recognize it.  I can't figure out how to delete the previous driver and do a reinstall, can anyone tell me how to delete the old one?  Or, if anyone knows what the problem is, it would be greatly appreciated if you could help...it's driving (no pun intended) me crazy.
Thanks,
Jim

Just found this, you might want  to try it. It worked for me.
Resetting the printing system in Mac OS X 10.5.x
To use the Reset Printing System feature in Mac OS X 10.5.x, follow these steps:
Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
Choose Print & Fax from the View menu.
Control-click on list of printers on the left side of the window, then choose "Reset printing system" from the contextual menu. If you don't see a list of printers, Control-click on the text "Click + to add a printer or fax" and select "Reset printing system..."
    As an alternative, if you currently have one or more printers listed, you can Option-click the "-" (Remove printer) button.

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