O.T. iMac and Epson Printer Issues

I have just set up my new 20" iMac running OS 10.5.6 and have been testing my various peripherals.
Printing old saved PSE3.0 images on my Epson 1290 (1280) they are coming out noticeably darker than when printed under OS 10.3.9. I deliberately did nothing with the saved files in PSE,just clicked print to avoid introducing any screen calibration issues,and the correct .icc profile had been added to Library/Color Sync/ Profiles for the paper I was using (and have always used).
Is this a known problem with an iMac running Leopard ?

Perhaps I should have done this before starting my thread,but who wants to reinvent the wheel !
Having spent many hours this morning,and even more sheets of paper to resolve this problem,I have come to the following conclusions on printing an image from PSE3 in Leopard :
USING THE EPSON PRINTER DRIVER -
Leave the printer manage colour - color controls - photo realistic - gamma 1.8
USING GUTENPRINT DRIVER (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php)
Make no changes to Color Sync use Automatic
Do not change the .icc profile (although I did leave it set in PSE3).
Adjust print quality to max possible.
Both these options give acceptable prints, Epson perhaps a shade darker.
I preferred the colour representation in Gutenprint,but that is obviously a personal thing. Whether they'd satisfy someone making a living from photography is another matter.
In the future I will probably tweak the lightness in PSE to compensate for the slight darkening in the print process,but probably leave the colours alone.
Two other points -
The Gutenprint driver seems to print more quickly.
Adobe and Apple don't seem to care.

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