cannot open system/admin/printing, cups errors, cups server could not be contacted...

[Phillip Crumm]

> I tried uninstalling cups through synaptic and was unable to, it said
> that there were errors and they needed to be fixed first, but when I
> tried to fix, it said it was unable to fix.

You could try "dpkg -r cups" -- if nothing else, it may be able to give 
you a slightly more helpful error message (or, if you got one, what was 
it?)

> I keep getting the "cups server could not be contacted" [snip]

That probably means you have it listening in the wrong place. Exactly what 
did you change in the configuration file? What error message(s) are you 
getting? Is that is specific as they get?