What's the status of Win 7 64 Photoshop CS5 multiple prints?

Question

I notice the thread on this goes back to May 2010 and it is now Feb 2011. The number of copies print setting is mostly ignored and prints just one. Sometimes though the petty little officious bureaucrat that is inside CS5 remembers you asked for 14 copies some time back and instead of printing 1 it now prints 14. It frequently loses the printer portrait vs landscape and has a particular fondness for reseting the paper size to A4 which I have never specified nor owned.
I have a new install of CS5 extended Master Collection on a quad Intel CPU 12gb memory Windows 7 64 bit. Likely irrelevant, th printer is either Samsung ML-2855ND B&W laser,  or Epson 3800 photo printer.
I have all the Windows updates and all the Photoshop CS5 updates.
Any suggestions please -beyond going back to XP and CS3 on another machine?

Answer 1

There is no selectable field within Photoshop CS5 "print settings" that I can see for selecting the number of copies. It displays the number of copies there, yes, but it is not a field that you can change. There is then only one place where # of copies is entered and that is on "Print".
I actually have no problem with printing just one copy since there is on the "File" drop down menu a "Print One Copy" function just beneath "Print".
The seemingly random reset, while still in Photoshop CS5 with Epson 3800 selected, back to A4 paper/portrait/Samsung ML-2855 is annoying but correctable by checking print settings before every print. What I was unable to get consistent was multiple copies when that number was changing between prints. The first time it would consistently ignore 14 and print just one, then it would print 16 instead of 14 where 16 was a number I selected a few prints back. Bizarre.
I have just completed 450 prints and achieved that by "Click, File drop down, Cursor down Click, select Print One Copy, cursor back to top......
This tedious process is physically wretched and has caused some amount of emotion with accompanying language which I won't repeat for fear of upsetting anybody's delicate sensibilities.
Whatever the esoteric reason for this failure that months of work by Adobe's finest have been unable or unwilling to solve, the workaround is simple. The task of repeating a function is accomplished by a FOR or WHILE loop. Take the "Print One Copy" function and NumberCopies thus:
i = 0;
for (i=0; i < NumberCopies;) {
    Print One Copy    i++;