Slow print dialog problem in Leopard

I'm experiencing a significant slowness from when I press cmd-P to print to when the actual print dialog shows up. In another Mac system in the house with a similar configuration (tho Intel Mac), the print dialog with the same Epson LP-S5500 driver doesn't take A MINUTE to show up.
I thought it might be a permissions error, which cannot be repaired right now under Leopard for some reason. Anyone have any ideas why the print dialog is so freaking slow to appear? Every time I make a change to the dialog after it comes up takes another minute. It's quite frustrating.
Help!

Well, in my logs, it shows this...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Full reload is required.
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Loaded MIME database from '/private/etc/cups': 52 types, 48 filters...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Loading job cache file "/private/var/spool/cups/cache/job.cache"...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Full reload complete.
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 4...
E [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Unable to bind socket for address ::1:631 - Address already in use.
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 6...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Listening to /private/var/run/cupsd on fd 7...
I [07/Dec/2007:12:31:40 +0900] Resuming new connection processing...
What is the fd6 and fd6 etc. part?
Mine doesn't seem to be that simple.

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