Printing rotated when fit to printable area

I'm having a problem printing things right side up. First, versioning:
Adobe Reader 9.2
OS: Linux Red Hat
Printer: Xerox Phaser 8550DT
Everytime I print (without chaning any options, Portrait is selected), what should be a portrait paper comes out in landscape. I can use a normal lpr command from the command line and it comes out fine,this is only a problem printing from the Print Dialog. If I click on properties in the Print Dialog screen, this is the command that is there:
lpr -P p114 -o PageSize=Letter -o PageRegion=Letter -o Resolution=default -o InputSlot=Default -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble -o PreFilter=No
The really odd thing is others can print just fine using the Print Dialog in Adobe Reader (this is enterprise Linux) on the same machine. It's just my login that has issues.
Any ideas on things I could check?

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