Printer profile question

Some of my profiles are grayed out in the "Print Settings" dialogue box, even though they are in the Profiles folder. Others do not appear at all. I'm running OS 10.4.11 and using an Epson 2200.
Any ideas why this might be?

Ramon,
I believe you, though I wonder why Epson can't be bothered to fix this now that OS X has been in very widespread use for a number of years.
I finally got it working after several tries and problems with the cartridge, etc. Yes, I did need to delete and reinstall the instances of the 2200. It's still a little glitchy - gets hung up and asks me to do it again, but that's tolerable I guess. My problems were being compounded by the cartridge not charging properly when swapped. Not sure how to do this but cleaning solved it.
Also needed to turn black point compensation off to avoid blob-looking blacks on the print.
i was using ColorSync utility mostly to try to figure out what was going on, not in printing. It's a bit mysterious and proved unhelpful.
One final question. The Epson Print Utility sometimes seems to wander off into outer space and require a restart. Do you have that problem?
Thanks for your help.

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