I can confirm this happens to me on a vanilla Debian Etch netinstall as of 4/20 with the GNOME desktop. No test pages print.
As the OP said, printing from other applications is fine, so the cups server is working. It's just the gnome-cups-manager. Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com http://www.linuxreality.com
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