In the roundtable discussion this evening I made a comment about how Thunderbird wasn't printing double sided pages on my duplex printer. Oddly enough just about all the other applications (Open Office etc,) worked properly. Adam suggested it was probably something in CUPS. I figured that since everything else appeared to work that wasn't the case. Well hats off to Adam. He called that problem correctly. It WAS CUPS.
The solution... At https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/885118 they suggested going into the CUPS web configuration directly at http://localhost:631/ to make the changes. I took a look at the defaults. It was set for single sided printing. I made that change and it whined about not having the duplexer enabled. I told CUPS it was there. Now I get the proper options (at least the one I want) in Thunderbird. I'll try it out later and see if that actually solved the problem.
On another note. Thanks again Rob. I'll pass along the URL to someone who knows someone who knows someone and see if I can get something from China. If it all works I'll do a demo for both the MWCS and MUUG (assuming I still have the antennas I built - I WILL need a ride home from someone that day and maybe a pickup as well).
Later Mike