Print preview is over saturated

When printing I check the print preview box, everything is fine until I hit the print button and it puts up the preview window which says to either print or cancel.
When the preview button is up all the colors are way oversaturated like yellow/very light red become very dark red and light green leaf's become very bright green etc.
If I hit the print button the printer print with the correct colors.
The initial print window is correct (the one where I select the printer/and with or not photoshop or printer controls the colors)
I have photoshop controls colors, color controls turned off in the printer, the correct printer paper profile selected, etc
Running the latest version of CS5 and Camera Raw. I have a Epson 3880.
This has been happening for as long as i can remember.

Are you talking about the Epson or MacOS preview? Photoshop only provides the preview in the Photoshop print dialog -- the rest are from the printer driver or OS.

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I ask anyone with Tiger and 6.0.3 to double click a photo from within iPhoto so it goes to edit within Photoshop. As soon as the photo arrives at PS it looks fine and as it should be. Compare the two and iPhoto's is aweful!!
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This is my first HP printer. I have had it only a few days and am very disappointed with prints from my photographs.
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http://www.gballard.net/psd/cswfi/panthercs.jpg
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That's a bit surprising, in that I've found HP in general to support their released hardware better than most when a new OS is released.
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