Gnome-apps crash when trying to enter print-menu; print preview is "empty"

Hi there, 

I got here a *very* strange Problem with Gnome-print & cups which is
giving me relly headaches. - I first noticed it a few days ago, when
trying to print from evolution: evo simply - when trying to enter the
print-dialog - crashed. 

Note: I don't use a fullfledged Gnome (only the needed libs etc.), but
run KDE 3.2.0 as GUI. The system is a dual PIII running vanilla 2.4.25
under Gentoo-x86. Current versions on my system are gnome-print-0.35-r3;
libgnomeprint-2.4.2; libgnomeprintui-2.4.2; cups-1.1.20

Evo gets a Segfault when gnome-print tries to access the cups printer.
If I try a "print preview" I get only a "blank page" shown. 

In the process of trying to get things to work I've already re-build
gnome-print, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, bonobo, libbonobo,
libbonoboui, evolution ... no success. 

stracing evolution or cups hasn't given me any useful hints either.

I can reproduce the crash also with other gnome-apps, e.g. gThumb. 

I got a gut-feeling that's something's wrong with my gnome-print and/or
cups  ... but printing from other apps works so far fine. 

If I launch Evo from the console and to to print-preview and try to
print afterwards I get the following messages (Note: The printer
"FS1000plusKPDL" is available for other apps, e.g. kprinter): 

        (evolution:5435): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: The data for
        the CUPS printer FS1000plusKPDL could not be loaded. 
        
        ** (evolution:5435): CRITICAL **: file gpa-config.c: line 171
        (gpa_config_new_full): assertion `GPA_IS_SETTINGS (settings)'
        failed 
        
        (evolution:5435): GnomePrint-CRITICAL **: file gnome-font.c:
        line 290 (gnome_font_find_closest): assertion `face !=3D NULL'
        failed 
        
        ** (evolution:5435): CRITICAL **: file gpa-node.c: line 335
        (gpa_node_get_path_value): assertion `node !=3D NULL' failed 
        
[many repeats of the above message] 
        
        (evolution:5435): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: The data for
        the CUPS printer FS1000plusKPDL could not be loaded. 
        
        ** (evolution:5435): CRITICAL **: file gpa-config.c: line 171
        (gpa_config_new_full): assertion `GPA_IS_SETTINGS (settings)' 
        
        ** (evolution:5435): CRITICAL **: file gpa-node.c: line 335
        (gpa_node_get_path_value): assertion `node !=3D NULL' failed 
        
        (evolution:5435): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL)
        pointer instance 
        
        (evolution:5435): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line
        1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE
        (instance)' failed 
        
Any Ideas what I might try to do to fix this or where to start further
debugging efforts?

TIA 

Stefan.
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