Snow Leopard causing Printer & Excel crashes PLEASE HELP!

Original install from 10.5.8 to 10.6.0 - now at 10.6.1.
The first install the system was freezing up and I couldn't get the printer to work. Internet was intermittent and slow as was the whole system and couldn't get Quicktime to work. Then the system hung up at the log in screen and went into a loop back to the log in screen effectively making the Mac Pro inoperable.
I wiped the computer and re-loaded Snow Leopard and used a Time Machine back-up to get everything back. Everything I opened worked fine (including the printer). I had to re-install Office:mac 2008 and then the problems started.
1.The printer would crash on anything I tried to print on any app, and the System Preference panel for printers would crash every time I tried to open it. I tried downloading the fix for HP Photosmart 3180 C All-In-One printer and got to a certain point and a warning resulted:
"/system/library/extensions/pulsedriver.kext was installed improperly and cannot be used. Get update from HP" ????
2. Excel will open about 5 workbooks with no data and the beach ball spins until it crashes.
A complete wipe and re-install of Office did not fix it.
I also fixed the permissions on my HD and repaired the disk and this did not help.
Is there anything I can do to fix these two areas without wiping the HD and starting from scratch?
The printer started to crash AFTER I installed Office:mac 2008. but wiping the program off the HD did not fix the printer.
Please Help !!!

I finished validating the fonts and used YUSA to clean up the caches but to no avail. I will look at an uninstall for the print driver and see what that does. My problem is that I can't even get into the print preferences because it fails to open.
Though I agree with you on Office being a very stable program. I am not able to get Excel to open up... It starts up and opens the last 5 spreadsheets that were previously opened before the problem started. The sheet shell is there for all 5 workbooks but there is no data and nothing but a beach ball bouncing around. Summer is over and I am sick of playing with the beach ball LOL
By the way - what All in one printer would you recommend for Mac. The HP printers I have are from my days when I used a (yuk) PC.
Also, I have two other Macs - a 15 Macbook Pro and a recently purchased 17 Macbook Pro - I have not installed Snow Leopard on either one and probably will not based on all the issues I am having with my tower. they run great right now and no problems with Office or the HP printers.

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