Printing in PSE 4.0 vs 8.0

Having used Photoshop Elements 4.0 for some time, I recently decided it was time to upgrade to Version 8.0 which I did about a few weeks ago.
My photo printer is an Epson Artisan 800 which I am very happy with.
When I print with Version 4.0, my printed photos are spot on color and excellent. However, when I print the exact same photo with Version 8.0, the printed photo is much too dark and totally unacceptable.
I bought Barbara Brundage's book "The Missing Manual" for PSE 8.0 and read the section on Color Management and tried changing some settings but it didn't seem to help. There must be some differences in the settings between the two versions but I cannot seem to figure them out.
I just want my photos to print in 8.0 like they do in 4.0.
Can anyone help please?
Thank you.
Alan

Hi Barbara ..
The colors seem OK now (don't know why)... but now I get equally spaced vertical lines with PSE 8. See the attachement. I scanned in two photos .... the top image was printed from PSE8 and the bottom from PSE 4.
In the top image .. notice the vertical line going the front leg of the table and thru the top of my grandson's hand. Those are the most discernable in the scans I made but they are thru the entire width of the photo equally spaced apart.
Notice that the bottom photo made with PSE 4 is perfect ... no lines at all.
BTW .. just to be sure it wasn't a computer problem, I tried PSE 8 on two computers .. one running XP and the other running Windows 7. Results are the same.
Also, I get the same results no matter what the color settings seem to be and I tried all three.
You're thoughts?
Does Adobe have a website where I can send these these pics and ask them?
I'm really frustrated.
Thanks
Alan

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