Photoshop CS4 printer selection failure

Wondering if anyone might know what's happening here....
Using Photoshop CS4, Windows 7 SP1, Novell Network Printers.
There are 2 problems:
1) In the print dialog box, no matter what printer is selected, the page setup button has settings for a different printer.
2) After clicking print on the print dialog box, the system print dialog box has the wrong printer selected. The selected printer is random depending on what printers are installed. It is not the default printer necessarily.

I am not understanding what your trying to do or the steps. When you install the plug in your saying there should be your printer listed in PS CS4 Export as a option to choose from? Do you have a 64 bit OS? If so my guess is that it is only a 32 bit plugin option and maybe you installed it in the 64 bit plug in folder? Or the opposite?

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