Problem printing with Photoshop

I have a problem with trying to print from Photoshop to an Epson 1280.
Photoshop is set up with color settings of US Prepress 2. If I tell photoshop to manage color and turn off color adjuetment in the Epson dialog I get a nasty magenta print, much like would be expected if photoshop was supposed to manage color AND epson was told to manage color. In other words, double profiling.
I have trashed and re-installed both the Epson printer drivers and Photoshop. I suspect Colorsync may be part of the problem. Somehow the "Preferences" section of the ColorSync Utility has dissappeared.
Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Not sure if this will help with the output, but you can reinstall ColorSync using Pacifist from versiontracker.com - that may help give an idea of what's going on.

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