Several photo applications won't work

I upgraded from Leopard to 10.6.6 on my 2007 MacPro the other day, just after adding an ATI Radeon 5770 graphics card to feed an Apple 27" LED Cinema Display. Everything seemed to work fine until I tried running some photo and printing apps. Then I discovered that Photoshop CS4 won't recognize the driver for my Epson 3880 when I try to print, although it recognizes the 2400's driver. In addition, ColorMunki simply freezes on launch without displaying anything and has to be forced to quit, and both Epson LFP Remote Panel and Aperture 3 give a notice that a fault prevented the launch, and that the app might not be compatible with the current version of the OS. I haven't found any other balky apps, but I haven't tried launching everything. Safari works and so does Mail. Printer drivers have been repeatedly reinstalled, from DVD and from the Epson site.
I replaced the X1900 card and the 24" HD Cinema display, found the problem persisted, and went back to the 5770/27". So the problem is not with the card or the display.
Wondering if I had a corrupted installation of the OS, I reinstalled 10.6.3 from the DVD, found the problem persisted, updated to 10.6.6, and found the problem persisted.
The strange thing is that I have absolutely no problem with any of these apps, or any other problem, with 10.6.6 on my MacBook Pro or my iMac. So the problem is not with the OS.
What IS the problem? And why is it occurring only with apps that access printers/printer drivers? There must be a clue in there. HELP!
—howard

More thoughts on the above.
It's hard for me to believe that a corrupted driver file could cause an abort of the launch of a photo-editing app that merely is capable of using that file when necessary, and shouldn't care (or even know) at launch whether that file is clean, or even present. But in thinking about this, I keep coming back to the fact that it seems to be that only apps that access printer drivers are affected, and that one program that DOES launch, Photoshop, does't engage the 3880 driver at print time, even though it does engage the 2400 driver.
Is it possible that I got a corrupted installation of the 3880 driver originally, and that on subsequent re-installations, the installer, rather than re-installing the driver, over-writing the old one, merely looks to see if the current one is already installed, and if it is, leaves it alone without checking its integrity?
How can I trash every file the driver installer created, in order to do a pristine re-install?

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