GPATPANDP  Hurrah For these DRIVERS !!!

...I still own/use a very reliable Epson Printer I bought brand new in 1997. I grew SOOOOO dag gone sick and tired of having to finagle and coerce the system drivers to work each and every time I updated to the newest version of OSX 10.5 (10.5.7 this time around). In these tough economic times (in case anyone has forgotten), WHY in tarnation should I have to run out and buy a new printer when mine works perfectly fine if/when/ever the system drivers will operate correctly.

Out of sheer frustration, I came SOOOOO close today to scrapping my whole updated system in favor of reverting to my OSX 10.5.6 (of which I had absolutely no issues printing at all once I spent a few days finagling and coercing it to work from the previous update) system backup because this time around I just could not get them to work in OSX 10.5.7. Then "whola !" I discovered these drivers upon which I happily got rid of those old pieces of junk and feel quite certain that I will never have to revisit this nonsense ever again. ***Whew*** !!! :)  
(Version 5.2.4rc1)

GPATPANDP  Just a follow up to my post the other day...I did everything possible in running every disc utility I own/possess (ie Tech Tool Pro, Disc Warrior, Cocktail) and I even acquired Apples own Service Diagnostic DVD and completely ran every test. Despite this fact, every test I performed passed and cleared any possible relationship to my machines hardware or existing software as I continued to experience frequent system stalls (blue screen lock up) while either restarting or shutting down after updating to OSX 10.5.3. Upon erasing my hard drive and transferring over from my firewire back the exact same system though still of the previous 10.5.2 OSX version, I am back up and running flawlessly. I resent the very brief and ineffective conversation I had upon indentifying this issue with an Apple Care technical support representative the other day. I tried in ernest to express that this problem was unique in my updating to the latest OSX 10.5.3 release, though she was dead set on wanting to attribute it to something on my end thereby justifying the $50 fee. Well at the very least this proves I knew what I was talking about and I am glad that I did not succumb to needlessly pouring my own money down the drain  
(Version 10.5.3)

GPATPANDP  Since updating to OSX 10.5.3 the other day, my iMac G5 20" iSight model is "freezing" at times (sometimes it does this other times it performs as it should) on restart meaning the computer begins to boot down though locks up once the finder and dock disapear and a solid blue screen remains. This seems quite odd as I never had this problem with either the original release nor the previous updates (10.5.1 & 10.5.2). I have been to the Apple support forums and noticed that there is an insruction for what appears to be a similar issue though the one caveat is that upon stalling at restart or shutdown, the machine will boot up upon forcing it to quit when pressing the on/off on the back. Has any one else encountered this issue since performing the new 10.5.3 up date ? Apple won't help me as they claim it can be either a hardware OR software issue and therefore unless a shell out the $50, I am on my own :(  
(Version 10.5.3)