(Since I know you can't wait to find out how this went... )
Having run out of other options, I spent all evening reinstalling OS X
10.5 from scratch (I did "Archive and Install," but with "Preserve
Users and Groups" turned off).
And lo, printing works again. Who knows why?
BUT... here is the curious (and on-topic thing)...
If you've been using Finale under Leopard (OS X 10.5.x), you've
probably noticed a lot of frustrating bugs (like, having the click the
menubar after making your selection from the Launch Window, or having
the transposition interval change when you click "OK" instead of use
the keyboard shortcut for "OK" (Enter).
After reinstalling OS X, those problems are (knock on wood) gone.
I don't know if that's related to my not reinstalling Finale 2008 from
the DVD this time. Instead, I just dragged the Finale folder from the
"Previous Systems" folder into the new Applications folder, something
I don't usually do when I reinstall, but I don't have time right now
to mess around with reinstalling everything from scratch. (It's bad
enough that this method does not work for many apps, like all the
Garritan libraries -- all of those needed to be reinstalled from the
original discs, and registered, and updated, and re-registered -- gah.)
But the upshot is, I am using exactly the same Finale folder I used to
use before I reinstalled OS X, and yet it doesn't exhibit any of the
buggy behavior I'm using to seeing from Finale 2008.
I should also mention that when I originally installed OS X 10.5, I
wiped my laptop's HD clean before installing, and reinstalled
everything on it from scratch, including every version of Finale since
Fin2005. But apparently, that didn't do me much good, given how buggy
Fin2008 was on my system, and given that my printer stopped responding
entirely.
I guess sometimes "when all else fails, reinstall the OS" really does
work sometimes...
Cheers,
- Darcy
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