Unable to Access Cups (localhost:631)

[bdegrasse1 at comcast.com]

Help, I am unable to access cups via http://localhost:631/.  Message is "An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/.  Could not connect to host localhost (port 631)."

I have tried installing and removing cups a number of time.  I get the following message when I reinstall cupsys, thus the daemon is not running.

Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 98!
invoke-rc.d initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.

How do I debug this problem or better yet what is the problem.

kernel-2.6.12-1,KDE 3.4.3

Bruce