For my birthday I got an Epson PictureMate photo printer as a present. At first sight, it looks like a nice product. Prints look good and the printer accepts most types of memory cards, direct connection from a camera, USB and Bluetooth. But while printing from a memory card or a camera is a piece of cake, I actually wanted to print from my PowerBook, since I can do some serious photo retouching using iPhoto or PhotoShop there.
This is where the problems started, since the printer driver and utilities for OS X, provided by Epson on the accompanying CD, use that unbelievable piece of crap that is Vise Insaller. I managed to install the driver after three trials and two reboots. That moron practically takes over your desktop, rendering it unresponsive for the whole duration of the install. After having installed the driver, I tried to connect the printer using Bluetooth, but it insisted that it couldn't find a suitable driver.
Connecting via USB was not easy, but in the end I managed to accomplish it. Fortunately, I can connect the printer to my Airport Express, so I can print remotely using WiFi instead of BlutTooth.
I also tried to install some of the programs on the CD, but once again that stupid Vise Installer managed to completely freeze my laptop twice. Let me say it again: Vise Installer is a piece of crap.
Sounds like you installed the OS9 drivers or drivers for an older OSX release. I have installed Epson drivers on about 30 computers over the last 2 years - proper drivers to proper OS - and have not had any issues. Computers ranged from mac mini to most recently quads and osxservers. Make sure you verify your driver version with your OS.
Vise is an above average cross platform product