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