Trying to print crashes applications

I don't have any answers for you, but I have had similar, recent problem. I have set up a new airport extreme network with my Powerbook G3 and two windows boxes. The windows machines can print to the printers fine, but now everytime I try to print from any application, any file type, the application crashes before it gets to the print dialog box. There is a delay while the computer seems to think about whether the app will crash, then it invariably does. This started after upgrading Adobe reader to version 8. I've removed it but still same thing. I actually upgraded from 10.4.5 to 10.4.10, as well as upgraded Quicktime and the latest security update, thinking this might fix it, but no.
You might want to try to run Disk Utility to scan your hard drive and make sure all the permissions are correct. I did this and the hard drive volume is fine, some of the permissions did get corrected, but still can't print without the app crashing.

Here is a suggestion in another thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1055895. Open printer setup utility in utilities folder, then under Printer Setup Utility pull down menu choose reset printing system, follow dialog boxes. Restart your computer and voila! This works for many with this problem. It will erase all your printers in the listed printers, but not the drivers, so once you connect to those printers the computer should automatically add that printer to the list. Networked printers might need to be added manually.
To others that might still be trying to resolve this issue, you might want to try to download freeware utility called Onyx. Then under the maintainence tab, check LaunchServices database, then check reset. This deletes the cache database of links between applications and documents, then starts a new one. Your documents will still open the correct apps, but if there were some error or corruption there between application and say printer drivers, it might correct it.
I did this and then reset printing system as above and now I can at least print to some of my printers (haven't tried all of them yet).