Tiger pdf printing issues

[cross posted to macosx-list and cups]

We have been printing without issue using a linux print server
runing .23 and a client.conf pointing at the linux box from
Mac OS 10.3 hosts.

We just brought in a tiger box,  edited the client.conf and
tried to print a pdf....  while I knew better than expect to
print from Acrobat,  I was dismayed to find that we received
the same error under Preview  number of printers served by a
linux server.

Just for grins I saved the file as a pdf on the desktop and
printed it from the command line....
lp -d printer -Tpostscript file.pdf
It came back telling  it was ignoring the print option and
voila,  out came the file lickety split.... 

the error_log log files are voluminous and we get the same
data over and over (wish I knew how to make sense of them ;=}
) but there are no jobs pending.  

everytime the error takes place I get a new error_log. I get
the following log entries, nothing more:

d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] CONTENT_TYPE = application/ipp
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 164,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 156,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 122,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 88,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 52,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 1,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800]
ProcessIPPRequest(0x40459870[7]): operation_id = 000b
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ProcessIPPRequest:
URI="ipp://localhost/printers/Pythagoras"
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800]
get_printer_attrs(0x40459870[7],
ipp://localhost/printers/Pythagoras)
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800]
add_printer_state_reasons(0x40459870[7], 0x80a7920[Pythagoras])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800]
add_queued_job_count(0x40459870[7], 0x80a7920[Pythagoras])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attrs(0x82219d8,
0x80a6cf0, (nil), 0)
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a6d18[printer-uri-supported,4,45])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a72c0[uri-authentication-supported,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a7310[uri-security-supported,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a71a8[printer-name,4,42])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a71e0[printer-location,4,41])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a7730[printer-info,4,41])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a7788[printer-more-info,4,45])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a7688[job-quota-period,4,21])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a76c8[job-k-limit,4,21])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a77f8[job-page-limit,4,21])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a7838[job-sheets-default,4,42])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x809b4d8[device-uri,4,45])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a0d28[color-supported,4,22])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a0f18[pages-per-minute,4,21])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a5570[printer-make-and-model,4,41])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x8091fe0[media-supported,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a1c78[media-default,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a1cb8[sides-supported,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x809f5b8[sides-default,4,44])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a25d0[finishings-supported,4,23])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a26f8[finishings-default,4,23])
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] copy_attribute(0x82219d8,
0x80a2370[printer-type,4,23])