Add Printer Does Nothing

I have been trying to get a network printer installed in my iBook G4 but have run into a lot of problems. I am trying to connect to a samba shared printer (served by a desktop running ubuntu) and I finally was able to get OS X to see the printer. I went through the Printers & Fax, did "add printer," found the printer under "more printers..." then set the driver type. I got the nice swirly pinwheel for a few seconds but then I was spit back to the Printer List with no new printer and no error message.
I thought maybe this was just more problems with my Samba shared printer so I tried setting up a printer as an IP printer using LPD but the same thing happened: it found the printer and I set the driver but then it spit me back to the printer list with no new printer and no error message.
Finally, I tried hooking the printer directly to my laptop and adding it that way. Once again, I was returned to the printer list with no new printer and no error message.
I tried foraging through the forums to see any fixes but so far came up empty. I fixed the permissions on my disk using "Disk Utility" but that didn't help the problem.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

You don't mention the printer type, so I'll guess it is a non-postscript one. CUPS on Ubuntu and on OS X work basically the same - they both "assume" that input they receive over standard CUPS protocols is postscript. (Mac-to-Mac printer sharing uses proprietary software to negate this.)
Two options - try selecting "generic postscript" for driver on OS X. (sends postscript from Mac to ubuntu)
or,
Create a second queue on Ubuntu for the same printer, but make it a "raw queue," with no driver associated. You will have to use a CUPS-capable driver on Mac OS X in order to print via standard CUPS protocols (Windows Printing is one of these).
Here are all the CUPS drivers I know of (including Gutenprint/Gimp-Print):
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
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