Chaz,
Alright, slow down here. It really sounds like you have a second printer
queue on your system, one that points to something that saves to files,
rather than to your printer. Can you please look at the Printers folder
(Control Panel -> Printers) and see how many print queues you have on your
system?
If you do have a printer queue that points to a printer (the name will say
something like the printer name on the printer you have), then go to the
properties dialog (right click & select properties), and click on "Print
Test Page". If that works then just make sure you've selected that queue
from any application you print from.
If any of the stuff above doesn't work, please describe it with a bit more
detail. Use steps to describe what you are doing so we can't accidentally
make mistakes when trying to reproduce the problem you are seeing.
Thanks,
Dan