Photoshop CS5 & Epson Stylus 3800 problem (Mac)

I am experiencing a frustrating problem with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Epson Stylus Pro 3800 printer with a Mac.
Trying to print on H-M paper, using the appropriate settings (see below), I find that under "Print Settings" on the printer driver, all the "Fine Art paper" choices are greyed out.
Also, which may or may not be relevant, no matter what presets are selected, the parameters remain the same (i.e., it does not appear to be responding to a change of presets).
I am running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. I have loaded the latest Epson driver, and reinstalled it after trashing the old /Library/Printers/EPSON folder.
Settings:
• Photoshop Manages Colors
• Document profile: HFA_Eps3800_MK_PhotoRag
• Printer Profile: HFA_Eps3800_MK_PhotoRag
• Intent: Relative Colorimetric
At this point I am baffled. Can anyone please help?

There are supposed to be Mac drivers and also Leopard beta drivers for the 3800.
There are too many Epson customers on Macs for them to not let the photo printers work with Macs.
P.S. I just Googled "Epson 3800 driver" and the first hit was the driver page. There are Mac drivers there, as there should be. *Did you scroll down past the Windows drivers* on that page? The Mac drivers are right there below the Windows drivers, just as they always are on the Epson site.

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I believe the issue to be caused by postscript vs PCL, but I have the newest driver and firmware version. The web interface for the printer contains no information about postscript at all. Help?
The response I got from Epson was less than useful. "To print Postscript you need a RIP software. Without a RIP text will look jagged and distorted. The two other printer being Laser Printer come with built-in RIP software. You will have to look for a RIP software that is compatible with the printer and with what you are trying to do." If it were truly a RIP issue, I would expect it to not work with Photoshop CS3 either, but it does. Which leads me to believe that there is a configuration difference between Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS4.

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