CUPS errors

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Hi everyone,

after some misguided, uninformed apt-getting I broke my CUPS system
and couldn't figure out what was wrong.  So I decided to remove all
CCUPS packages (cupsys, cupsys-client, and a couple of tohers) as well
as the foomatic packages, reinstall them, and try again.  

Now CUPS is reinstalled, but I'm having a terrible time getting my
printer reinstalled.  Here's the situation:

even though I ran apt-get remove --purge, when I reinstalled CUPS my
old printer ocnfiguration files were still there.  So to try and get
rtd of htem, I erased /etc/cupsys/printers.conf.  This was not
sufficient; cups still seems to think that my old printers are there,
andwhen I try to removethem I get 
"ckient-error-gone" in the web interface (I can't find these errors
in the error log, or I'd give you a afuller reading from the log)

SAo I figured I'd just try to add a new pritner description.  When I
do this, I get 
"client-error-not-authorized".  

I tried fiddng around with the authorizations in cupsd.ocnf, but this
hasn't helped yet.  

I should add that I had some trouble setting my printer up when I first
installed it (I have a Lexmark z53 on USB), but I kept careful notes
about how to fix the problem (after someone helped me out on this
list!) and have followed them scrupulously. 

Can anyone help me?  I can't find a description of these
"client-errors" anywhere inth e CUPS docs!  

thanks,

matt