Print & Fax control panel takes 1 MINUTE to open, delays app launching too

Hi everyone,
This one is driving me nuts. The Print & Fax control panel takes around a minute to open even after deleting all printers. Application launching is delayed for a similar period (if the app accesses printer info on startup I presume). Has anyone experienced this before? Any tips or suggestions gratefully received...
~ Rodney

Just documenting this in case any one else out there arrives at this thread with the same issue....
Some progress. Deleting all printers, resetting the printing system and running disk repair didn't do the trick. However downloading Printer Therapy (http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/pt6/) has assisted. After restart there is still a 1 minute delay launching many applications (presumably while they try to connect to print system) but whereas this happened for every launch before, now it only happens for the first application launch. If I manually start the cupsd daemon this appears to take 1 min to start. After this everything is fine. My working theory is the issue is somehow related to cupsd. Does anyone know whether this process is normally started the first time an application connects to the printer (even though, in this case, I have no printers defined at all).
I have no idea why cupsd is taking so long to startup, I have reset the cupsd preferences (using printer therapy) and permissions, deleted all temp files etc. Any additional suggestions/recommendations would be appreciated.
~ Rodney

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