Why is it so difficult to print a photo?

I have wasted about 20 4x6 pieces of photo paper trying to print a picture!
I have a digital pic that is way larger than 4x6. I want to scale it down and print borderless 4x6, but there must be some magic incantation that I can't figure out!
I have tried to use standard print sizes after cropping the image to 4x6, and it just does not work!
iphoto defaults to paper size of DMSIZEMINUSLETTER, as well as DMSIZE_4x6 (and DMSIZEMINUS4x6), and neither of these options work. I also tried choosing "scale to fit paper size" in paper handling, and selected 4x6, still no go! The picture is either too big, too small, or wrong orientation!
Is this an apple conspiracy to make you buy prints from them?
If anyone can give me some advice to make this work, I would really appreciate it!
Thanks!

canon pixma mp620
Your printer shows up a lot in Discussions and the problems seems to indicate driver issues. Canon's download list shows recent updates and upgrades. Interesting, the driver for OS X 10.3-10.5 is up to 7.12.2 as of 6/29/09. there is a new driver for OS X 10.6.
You say Preview print works. I presume you mean you see that 4x6 borderless option in the Preview print Dialogue box. Which suggests your printer driver plays well with your current OS X and points the finger back at iPhoto 6.
Do you have the latest (last update) version of iPhoto6 --- iPhoto 6.0.6?
Have you tried quitting iPhoto and deleting the preference file: (home>Libray>Preferences>com.apple.iPhoto.plist)
It can become corrupted and confuse iPhoto.

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