yes aikidavid some of us were unhappy and it was nothing we did.

CUPS 1.3 "installer" that may even have been on version tracker early on was made by cups.org. It clashes with OS 10.4 which we did not know until after the install. That's when they stopped making installers and stayed with open sore software.

CUPS is OWNED by Apple. The newest security update that ALSO dealt with CUPS, clashes with any CUPS updates that people installed. The effects were that we lost the ability to print and other strange things with other apps.

The ONLY way to fix it is to do a clean install. In my case I didn't have the space to do an archive install, so I had to clone my HD, do a clean install, then manually drag my stuff over by trial and error because there is no guide book for that, apple does not have that info, and not much on Google.

I'm up and running with the most important apps that I had to reactivate and re-serial.
Sure the Security Update seems to be working now after all MY hard work.

My youngest daughter is in NYC school of law and classes at Princeton. She uses my printer everyday as hers fried out.
I had to fix this fast in the only down time she had, Christmas.

My ONLY mistake was that I like to keep my computer clean and up to date.
The fault is with APPLE and it's sub-company CUPS.

What part of this don't you understand.