B209a not showing up in Win 7 Devices and Printers

After troubleshooting some wireless connectivity issues - basically by uninstalling everything and reinstalling and reconfiguring, everything seems to be working - printing and scanning over wireless, solution center runs fine, etc.
During the setup I named the printer and it displays as the default printer in any print dialog from any application, and is visible to other computers on the network and functional.
But it just doesn't show up under the Devices and Printers control panel! I added the printer here with no problem, but now I have two of them showing up in print dialogs. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? I'm not too concerned since everything is functioning correctly, but I like to have things in order. Thanks!
Edited to add: after some further investigation, the 'original" printer, along with the one I added under Devices and Printers, is showing up under the Network control panel in the networked printers section - but as UPnP device! This I don't understand at all. Unless it's the card reader portion of the printer that it's seeing?
Message Edited by LonWinters on 11-22-2009 12:58 PM

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