Print queue doesn't open (and preference button doesn't work either)

Okay, this has been my only problem since upgrading to Leopard and it's kind of annoying. For some reason I have not been able to get my print queues to ever open up since upgrading. I have three printers currently installed:
• Apple LaserWriter 16/600 (via local network)
• Brother MFC-3220C (USB)
• Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo (USB)
After printing I have yet to see the print queue come up for any of the printers. Also, if I go in to the System Preferences and click on the "Open Print Queue" button nothing happens whatsoever--no message, no window, nothing. I have tried resetting the print system and that has also had no effect on the problem. I have tried this on all of my printers and it just does not work correctly. I have also tried deleting the printers and re-adding them as well as fixing permissions, neither of which solved the problem.
If anyone has any insight in to why this is happening or what I can do to fix the problem, please let me know, I would like to be able to use the print queues again. Thank you!

John Blanchard1 wrote:
The printer preferences are stores in <home>/Library/Preferences, and they are the com.apple.print files. You could throw those away and see if things improve. Also, does this happen with all the printers? If so, and your printers are easy to re-add, you could go to <home>/Library/Printers and delete the printers there and then re-add them. When going to <home>/Library/Printers, you could see if double-clicking on the printers there launches the proxy.
Thanks for the information, however I finally found out what the problem was. After looking at it deeper, it appears that I had some weird owners & groups for a bunch of my user files which must have been causing the problems. Even though it was permissions related, Repair Permissions in Disk Utility wasn't catching the bad permissions or solving the issue, I had to hit all of my folders and files with chown and chmod in terminal to force change the owners and permissions. After doing all of that, I FINALLY have working print monitors...YES! So, in other words, if anyone else experiences this problem (I'm not sure why they would) please feel free to ask me how I finally solved it for a more in depth explanation.

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