Another usb printer-to-Airport Extreme problem

This issue is similar to Tanya Howie's, but involves an HP 5440 printer instead of a Pixma. I have the G4 iBook connecting via Airport to the Airport Extreme, the iMac Snowball hardwired to the AE via Ethernet cable, with the HP plugged in via usb to the AE. I have reinstalled the AE software 7.4.2, the HP software 5.3, and the Airport utility 5.4.2. Also, I connect to the internet via RoadRunner thru Warner Cable.
Occasional disconnects have been cured by resetting everything back up, until recently. Now, when I look at all the places where the printer should appear, I see it listed: in the Airport Utility settings, on the printer setup utility, the File dropdown Print command, in the dropdown Printer box and choosing Bonjour version of the HP, even in the Opening Connection box, which shows the attempt at opening the connection; the connection bar shows an attempted Print, then goes to Job Stopped.
When I run the Print Diagnostics that is in the HP 5440 menu bar, I get a green light on Airport, Airport Settings, Network Settings, ISP, and Internet, but a red light on Server, which also says Failed. If I click Continue and go thru the steps of the diagnostics, the last page says "Cannot connect to server: Networks Diagnostics was able to connect to the Internet, but not to the server 'HP Deskjet 5440 printer.riousbprint.tcp.local' . This could be caused by problems with the server, or an Internet problem between this computer and the server."
Where is this server, and can someone tell me how to address its issues or to find a work-around? And is there a step I have missed? Thanks!

I rolled back to 7.4.1 to try to fix my dropouts and slowdown problems, but that didn't make any difference. So I went back up to 7.4.2, but did the hard reset by
1. unplug Airport Extreme
2. Press in reset button on the back and hold it in while...
3. Plug in power
4. After light on the front started to flash, released the reset button
I then had to reset all the networking settings (password, SSID, etc) but that only took a few minutes and a couple of resets. The network dropouts haven't happened again so I'm hoping that has sorted it. The printers seem to be behaving themselves as well now. I did roll back to 7.3.2 at one point, but then I lost the printers completely with that and Snow Leopard (Leopard was fine though).
There was a posting I found from somewhere that said about setting up the printer using the IP connection setting rather than the automatic one, but I can't remember where I found that. Let me have a quick think...
Ok, I think this was the page (the instructions are very similar anyway)
http://pcworld.about.com/od/networkin1/Bugs-amp-Fixes-Ethernet-net.htm
Good luck.

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Though for XP should also work for Windows 2000.
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