Printing issues in CS4

We recently upgraded to CS4 from CS2 (Mac 10.5.7), and we've noticed a weird printing quirk that has never occured before. On two different Macs in our art dept, we have the occasional problem with files that were sent to one printer ending up on another. For example, our film outputter is run through a RIP program on a PC with 4 units. I just sent four files to Unit 2; two of the four files ended up on Unit 3. A coworker sent a file to Unit 3, and it ended up on a laser printer totally unassociated with the RIP. Neither of us ever experienced this problem running CS2. Also, for what it's worth, my coworker is running is software on Mac 10.5.5, so I don't think it has anything to do with any Apple updates.
We upgraded a couple weeks ago, but only just started utlizing the multiple artboards. I considered this as a cause (in some fashion), but some of the files I've sent had just a single artboard (also, this problem just started occurring within the last few days).
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you work around it?

Yeah, as you'll see in that other thread, this affected us here with CS3 running on 10.4.x I'm disappointed to hear it's still happening in CS4...
It happened quite a bit when we first moved to CS3, but seems to have mostly gone away on it's own. My cube neighbor says that he had it happen about a month ago, but other than that, I don't think it's happened other than that in the past 6 months.
Is there anything unique about the files that it's happening with?

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