Bonjour Printers?

All of a sudden in the Printer box of the print window, a drop down menu labeled Bonjour printers has appeared below the Shared Printers drop down menu. When I click on the Bonjour Printers item a printer labeled "Dell Laser Printer 1720dn" is listed. Is this some new setting/feature from Apple?
I only own 2 printers: an Epson Stylus 740 and an HP DeskJet 5150. The 740 is connected to the iMac via USB and the 5150 is connected to a G4 iMac via USB and is shared.
How do I delete the Bonjour Printers menu item?

BDAqua wrote:
Unless you've done something special...
http://www.dns-sd.org/ClientSetup.html
It should only be seeing things on the same subnet, say if your Router is 192.168.1.1, then it should only be seeing other things in the range of 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255
Unless maybe your Subnet Mask isn't 255.255.255.0
I think this is related to some equipment problems my ISP was having over the weekend. They had to change out a radio that was causing problems in my area. (It was a brand-new upgraded one that malfunctioned out of the box).

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