Digital BW, The Print

Sharing a little experience here that may come in handy for others:

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on a machine here this weekend,
and then downloaded and installed the Epson driver for Windows Vista 32-bit
(I started at http://www.epson.com/vista and clicked on the link for the 
R2400).

After installing the R2400 driver and verifying that the printer works, 
I then
installed the "Premium ICC Printer Profiles Epson Stylus\ufffd Photo R2400"
from the Epson support and downloads site.  The installers for these 
profiles
ran without complaint.  I had previously installed these profiles on a 
Windows
XP machine without problem.

Note that I primarily do B&W output using ABW, and this was already working
as expected under Windows Vista.  I also print color output from time to 
time,
so I want the Epson profiles.  Without them, color output is awful (too 
dark),
as is monochrome output not using ABW.

However, under Adobe PhotoShop Elements 5.0, I did not see the
Epson premium profiles.  Using the Windows Vista color profile manager,
I did not see any of these profiles.

I looked in \Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color and did not find
any of  the Epson premium profiles.  I looked on my XP system, and the
profiles *were* installed in this directory, so I manually copied the 
profiles
from XP to my Vista system.

I can now use the profiles as expected, and the print quality on Epson
paper (tested with EEM so far) is basically the same as it was under XP.

So I figure there's an issue with the Epson installer for the profiles, 
and I called
Epson customer support.  That turned out to be a complete waste of time :-(
Perhaps Epson is re-calculating the profiles for Windows Vista specifically?

-- Dana