Incredible looks like this is fixed in 0.0.20130503-1! Cheers, Geoffrey! Tons of thanks :)
Not sure which patch resolved it. 00:17:59 ig@pcig:~$ sudo prelink -am .... prelink: /usr/lib/cups/filter/smfpautoconf: Could not find one of the dependencies prelink: /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp: Could not find one of the dependencies 00:18:18 ig@pcig:~$ -- Igor Borski