Numbers not obeying printer preferences

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. When I set my printing preferences (in System Preferences->Print & Fax) to default to a particular printer (or "Last Printer Used"), all of my applications obey the selected rule except Numbers.
Numbers seems to be in love with one of my printers such that every time I print, that particular printer is automatically selected in the print dialog box. It is quite annoying to have to select my printer every time when other applications choose the printer specified in my System Preferences.
I tried trashing my Numbers preference file and the system level printer preference files and no joy.
Anyone have a suggestion as to what I should try next?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the info Peggy. It's kind of shame the program behaves this way. I really like the way Apple has improved the system level printing functions such that programs choose the default printer based on the setting in System Preferences. I can't figure out why Pages and Numbers were designed to ignore this preference given that they were developed in-house. I guess I'll submit feedback and hope that they will change this behavior such that it is consistent with other applications.

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