Print Settings--Photo Grayed-out

Hi all,
Just updated to Tiger and this morning tried to print a photo for the wife on my trusty MFC-210C multifunction printer. Heretofore have been able to get lovely photo-quality prints out of it using Panther, but to my surprise, the 'Print Settings' won't let me click on 'Photo' or 'Glossy,' only 'Fine.' The pics come out grainy and horrible.
Have updated the driver and re-added the printer to no avail.
I see some other folks have had this problem, but have read no answers for it yet. Is this an evil plot to make us buy iLife and purchase all our photos through iPhoto? Or am I just an insufficient nerd?
All help much appreciated.
-Ben
P.S. iBook G4, 60 gigs, plenty o' RAM, airport express, Tiger.

Do you know what version of Pages you have? You can find out by selecting "About Pages" from the Pages menu while it is running. In the first release of Pages, v 1.0, the Print icon didn't work. This was fixed with the v 1.0.1 update not long after the initial release. The current version is 1.0.2. If you have not moved the iWork folder containing the Pages application from your Applications folder, Software Update should let you know there is an update available.
If you are running version 1.0.1/2, the non-active icon might be due to not having a printer set up. I don't know for sure, but it is a possibility.
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