Printing from Lightroom 3

I have a HP Color Laser 2840 printer.  When I try to print from Lightroom 3 it dosen't work.  I get the ballon at the bottom of the screen telling me the document failed to print.  I have to go into the print que and delete the job.  All my other programs print fine as long as I don't try to print from Lightroom.  They also print fine once I delete the Lightroom document.

XP Pro, SP3,  2 gigs RAM, 200+ gig free disk space.  Sometimes I get a "49 error" on the printer panel, not always.  I'm also getting a
'Lightroom encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit. Lightroom will attempt to fix this problem the next time it launches" error but I've assumed this was a seperate issue".  I believe the "49 error" on the printer is a memory error and I beleive the "preview cache" error is also memory.  So maybe they are related?

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