Prints too dark since Snow Leopard was installed in my iMac

I have an iMac that is about six years old.  It had Tiger and since I got Snow Leopard installed, the prints are not looking right.  They certainly don't match what I see on the screen.  I have an Epson R1900 and I was very pleased with it and my iMac before.  I have Adobe Lightroom 1.4 and just got Lightroom 3.  I have CS 3, but just downloaded the trial version of CS5 extended.  I have tried upgrading the printer with Epson Common Updater for the R1900.  That file is Epson 14284.dmg.  It came out on 6//21/11.  I also tried one that came out 10/28/09, which is 13523.dmg.  In both cases I get a message saying system/library/extensions apple mobile device.kext installed improperly and can't be used.  The version of my printer is 8.61. The OS version is 10.6.8.
I will call Epson tomorrow.  I tried calling Apple twice now and both techs couldn't help.
Neil Evans

I had done exactly that.  I have an Eye-One Display 2 and used it to determine what the brightness was.  I had set it to 116.  It was set at its brightest setting when I got it back from QuadStar, the local Apple repair shop.  The latest prints are closer to what I had with Tiger OS.  I still don't know why I got the Apple Mobile Device messages when I was downloading the two Epson updated drivers and the Apple Software Update.  I'm thinking they were meaningless.  My ITunes works OK.  ??????
Thanks Hal for your help.
Neil

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