I would highly recommend Scott Kelby's book, too. His are the settings I use in CS3.
As for the compatibility issue with CS4, I just Googled it and came up with several hits in forums where people were discussing the issues they had using their Epson R1800 (and other printers) with CS4. I don't have Snow Leopard, still using Tiger, so I know it's not the OS. To see if it was my issue, I printed the same image from CS3 and CS4, and the CS3 print was fine while the CS4 was very dark. The discussions I read said that the profiles that you can download from Epson don't seem to work the same in CS4.
I really don't know why or if there's a fix, so I just print from CS3. Sorry I'm not more help.
I don't have the
Photoshop CS4 book by Kelby. It's possible that he addresses this issue.
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My Gear: Nikon D300s w/18-200mm VR & 50mm 1.4
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4, PSE 10, Lightroom 2