Runaway cups tmp files causing full startup disk

Hi there,
Summary of my question: How do I prevent /private/var/spool/cups/tmp from filling up my wife's hard drive?
Details:
My wife's 12-inch PowerBook G4 (10.4.8) was giving her "startup disk is almost full" errors, and I found out (using this handy tip) that the culprit was the /private/var/spool/cups/tmp directory: there were 20 or 30 GB of files in there. I don't know what they're for, although based on this post I guess they might have been job history files. So I deleted them (from the terminal, using sudo), and updated the cupsd.conf file as suggested in the post. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that actually fixed things, or if I'll need to go back and delete these files again sometime.
So my question is this: how do I prevent these files from being generated? This post says not to run server admin 24/7, but my wife's not running it at all (at least not to our knowledge), much less 24/7.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
--GP

Never mind--discovered a phantom printer job (said it was still printing, but also said "The process 'hppostprocessing' terminated unexpectedly on signal 10") that presumably was causing all the grief.

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