Ligatures drop out when printing from ID CS3 to a PS3 printer

Just got a new Dell 5110cn and this issue is driving me nuts.
InDesign CS3, Vista 64-bit. Am using the PS3 driver for the 5110cn, not the PCL driver.
I have disabled device font substitution in the driver. I have gone into the font substitution table and set everything to "Don't Substitute."
When I print directly from ID CS3, the "fi" ligatures in words like "certificate" or "verification" drop out.
The font in question is "Times".
If I Export the document to PDF, the ligatures view fine and print fine from the PDF.
Illustrator-created EPS files with the word "certificate" that are then dropped into ID CS3 print fine when printed direct.
I can print MS Word documents that have the word "certificate" in Times directly to the printer and those print fine (but for all I know, Word isn't using the same ligature method).
While this is a new printer, the behavior apears to be isolated to InDesign (printing direct from Adobe Illustrator is fine as well).
What gives???

Gah!
Why the hell is that disabled by default???
The other way I fixed it was to change from "Times" to "Times New Roman" and that worked (even without the Download PPD Fonts option checked).
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