Problems printing photoshop photos

Recently I have developed issues printing photos from my machine. The problems started when I installed my new Canon Pixma printer. Photos would appear perfect on my monitors (which are regularly calibrated with a ColorMunki) but when I would go to print them from lightroom they would appear very very dark. I tried then printing from windows and had the same problem. What is exceptionally strange is that, when I go to print from windows, the print preview actually shows the problem:
The image (when printed for the first time) will apear properly in the print preview for maybe a second, and then suddenly go dark.
The particularly odd thing is that his only seems to occur with photos produced with photoshop or lightroom. As a test I printed two pictures I had recieved from an online newsletter. One printed fine. The other did not. It turns out (by looking at the photo properties) one had been produced using photoshop, and the other had not. I have attempted to turn off printer color management on the canon, but it had no effect. I also now have the same problem when printing from the epson printer on my system.
I am running Windows 7 64. I have an Epson Artisan and Canon Pixma printer installed on my machine. Previous to the problem I had the Epson and an HP photosmart. I have been in contact with Canon customer support, and they seem unwilling to entertain the possibility that this is anything other than an Adobe issue. Any thoughts? I'm just about all out of ideas.
Thanks in advance.

I primarily print from one of three programs. Lightroom and Window's photo viewer, and on occation PrintMaster (when printing a digital scrapbook). The problem mostly occurs in Lightroom and Windows, though strangely printing from Printmaster even comes out slightly darker. The screen grab from above is using the windows photo viewer.
I have attempted upon printing to go into the print dialogue and disable any color correction:
This has provided no change whatsoever as well.
Again, the problem only occurs with photos produced by adobe software. As an experiment I took a picture I took from the Renaissance Faire that I processed through Lightroom. I then stuck that in PrintMaster and exported it. I changed nothing.
Here they are side by side:
Here are the print results:
The problem even occurs with photos not produced on my machine. Canon sent a test photo for me to print. A look in the properties showed it to be processed by Photoshop CS5. Same results. Overly dark.
When printing from lightroom, I print with "managed by printer" selected. In this case I have left the canon print settings at auto, manual with "driver driven" and these did not help. Changing to manual with ICM set with an input profile of "Adobe RGB (1998)" This print printed close, but was a little light. I also tried disabling the driver settings again, took lightroom off the printer managed setting, and set lightroom to "Canon IJ Color Printer Profile 2005" This produced the best print yet.
However, the problem I'm having is that when printing from Windows Photo Viewer I STILL get that same darkening, not matter what I do to the print settings. And the problem persists with the Epson printer as well. So, I feel like I'm making progress, but there is still something messed up. Idylically, I would like to be able to let the printer drivers do their thing, as I have in the past, but something seems to be getting in their way.

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