Printer Setup "Local System V Printer" PPD? Can't

[negative_perfection]

Running OS 10.4.4

Had time to do some "tidying up" on this computer today, and moved all my PPDs into this folder (they were strewn all over the place before):

Root > Library > Printers > PPDs > Contents > Resources > en.lproj >

In Printer Setup Utility, I attempted to connect my installed printers to the PPDs, but all the PPDs I moved into this folder were grayed out. All the printers are AppleTalk networked devices.

Okay. So I just started from scratch and added printers, and the PPDs were not grayed out. However, I selected the PPD, clicked Apply Changes, and in the main window of my Printer List the "Kind" is listed as "Local System V Printer" instead of the actual PPD name (as it was before).

I tried sending a print job and it seems to process out of InDesign, but nothing ever goes into the Print Queue. I've Googled this a bit, but I'm wasting too much time now and starting to feel flustered.

Any ideas? Have I left out any important info? Should I try getting new PPD files from the printer vendors?

[David]

I keep all my PPD's in the user/home/library/printers and they all work great from there.
The "v" printer is a virtual printer (like for making postscript files).
How did you add the printers, did you use Appletalk, IP, or what?

I noticed you're running 10.4.4, you might want to do the update to 10.4.6 to see if that helps.

[negative_perfection]

Just wanted to add a note of resolution to this issue. After messing around with possible connections, network stuff, etc, I discovered that the PPD file was corrupt (was 12Kb on my machine, and 132Kb on the printer software CD). Copied over the new PPD file and all is well!

I also discovered that I don?t know poop about networks and connections.