Apple Update Killed Samsung Scanner Support

Hello, I use a Samsung SCX-4300 all-in-one printer [b&w laser & scanner].

I have been using this printer since it first came on the market some years ago, and from day 1 it has always been fully supported for use in Mac OS [IIRC this printer predates 10.5 but I am not sure offhand, I know I was using it in 10.5 & am currently using 10.6.8].

A few days ago Apple's "Software Update" popped up saying that it wanted to update my Samsung printer drivers. I allowed it to do this.

Ever since I have been unable to scan using my printer. Yet if I boot into an old 10.5 system volume I had lying around, it works just as it should. Clearly the "update" took away use of the scanner portion of my all in one! Using google I can find people on various mac forums who have also noticed that the driver "update" took away scan support.

So I tried uninstalling the update by deleting all my printer drivers from both root/library/printers/ & root/users/username/library/printers/, and then going to samsung's website to find the older drivers [technically the printer portion and scanner portion are two different downloads] which I then installed.

Yet this somehow could not fix the problem. 😕

Are there other directories hiding printer & scan drivers I need to seek out & delete? How do I get the scan feature back for my printer? I really don't want to have to reinstall mac os & reformat because of something that should be as trivial as this. What am I doing wrong here?

I don't know if the higher ups read these things but I would love it if in the future Apple were to warn me when an update it is telling me to install takes away a fundamental feature of one of my devices. I would have choosen to ignore the update if I had known this would happen, particularly since I have never had any problems or complaints relating to the earlier versions of the drivers [all of which were working fine in 10.6.8 up until this update!].