Can't find printer driver in menu

I have a MacBook running 10.4.8 that I am trying to set up to print to an HP Deskjet 5150. Supposedly, the drivers for the Deskjet 5100 series are included with Tiger. However, when I go to add the printer, I can't select the 5100 series driver from the menu. It just doesn't show up. The last Deskjet that's listed is the 2500 series. I installed all of the printer drivers from the Tiger installation DVD, and I also downloaded and installed the driver directly from HP's web site. I just can't seem to select it. I've also tried restarting a couple of times. Any ideas?

Well, I've checked the list of installed printer drivers for HP by OS X and I don't see a driver for the Deskjet 5100 series.
When you downloaded the HP driver did you install it? You need to install the driver. Also you need to get the Universal Binary driver.
You will need to uninstall any previous HP drivers you have installed for this printer and then Reset Print System in the Printer Setup Utility before trying to Add the universal binary driver.

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I did as you suggested but now get a different error: 0x00000214
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