Airport Drops my Printer

I have an iBook running 10.4.7 and a Dell running XP Pro on my airport network, as well as an HP 2110 printer.
Things had been running OK, but suddenly I couldn't print to the HP. I tried deleting the printers and re-installing, to no avail.
The only thing that seems to help is to reboot the Airport (unplug the power). Then it finds the printer and the document starts. Once I get it going, it seems to do OK until the computer goes to sleep, then I have to reset the airport again for printing. Internet connection works perfectly even when the printer doesn't.
When I try to test the printer with the Dell, we never get a clean test because his computer has "issues" sometimes and I can't tell if it doesn't like the printer or if it's just being weird. He loses wireless connection way more than I do.
We would occasionally have problems with the printer where we had to turn off the printer to get it to work. It would go into a "powersave" mode and forget to wake up. The problem seems to be moving up the food chain.
I don't know what version of the Airport firmware I'm running and I'm not at home right now to check. Any ideas I can try when I get home tonight? Thanks!
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It's an RCA Digital Broadband router. All activity on it seems to be just fine, and I like I said, my internet connection never goes down...it just stops sending things to the printer.

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