Digital BW, The Print

Yesterday I posted about problems I was having with Qimage and QTR. I
now believe that Qimage was working properly all along, but that it
was QTR which was giving me grief. I say this because throughout this
whole episode, every time I opened up the TIF output file in PSCS it
always was of the proper dimensions and orientation.

Last night when I tried this again imagetoraster.exe crashed on me,
and it appears that the print job would sometimes stop printing in the
middle of the operation, leaving my 2200 in a weird state. 

I've had problems with QTR ever since I started using it about 5 or 6
weeks ago. When I first started using QTR I began having problems with
paper feeding issues on my 2200. Everyone here on this board seemed to
believe that the problem wasn't QTR. I don't think that assesment was
correct. I called Epson and they suggested deleting and reinstalling
their print driver, which I did. Afterwards I stopped using QTR and
didn't have a single print misfeed or error for 3 weeks until I
started using QTR again earlier this week. Now that I've been trying
to get this BW print done for the past few days I've become
increasingly frustrated with the whole process. I've had at least 5 or
6 paper misfeeds, I've not been able to get my image whole image
printed with QTR. And last night to cap it all off there was another
paper misfeed problem where the paper wan't pulled through and the
printer began spraying ink all over the place mucking up the guides
and rollers. 

Now I'm sure there's gonna be a bunch of people saying "I've never had
that problem, you must be doing something wrong or somethings wrong
with your printer or computer." While I may be doing something wrong
with respect to QTR, I seriously doubt that there is anything wrong
wiht my computer or printer. I've been using both successfully
printing from within PSCS since May of this year. In that time I've
never had a paper misfeed, nor had any problems at all printing except
when using QTR. I've printed color images successfully with Qimage 4
or 5 times also.

I'm running Win XP sp2, and using the Windows version of QTR and QTR
gui. My computer is already networked, and my 2200 is connected
directly to the machine I'm printing from on a share called Quad2200. 

I do have a linux machine running here also. Is the linux version of
QTR more stable/mature than the Windows version? Would I be less
likely to run into problems if I went through the hassle of connecting
 the 2200 to the linux machine and running QTR from there?

Please advise.

Derek