Cannot print to Windows printer using Time Capsule

Hi all,
I recently bought Time Capsule and am having some printing problems. Here's the situation:
I have a printer connected to a Windows PC and want to print to it using my Mac. Now, before I bought Time Capsule and used a cheap router this worked fine. However, now when I try to print from my Mac to the Windows PC I get the following error messages:
"Connection failed: NTSTATUS_BAD_NETWORKNAME"
"Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds..."
I reckon that the Windows PC is blocking all requests from my Time Capsule. To test I've tried turning off the firewall on Windows and it's anti-virus software (Kaspersky) and still no luck.
And moving the printer to my Time Capsule is not really a solution either.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.

I did some searching -- more info: This is apparently due to an upgrade to CUPS, which is the Common Unix Printing System (available to administer directly at: http://localhost:631/ ) This is the way to add a printer if you feel especially geeky.
There is another discussion: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6914585&#6914585
about this, but apparently it is not a resolution, just a description of the problem.
So, I really don't want to deinstall the 2008-002 update, if I can help it. I already installed version 1.1, which did not resolve the issue. I would like to be able to print to my Windows-Active Directory printers without resorting to IP printing. It sounds like this is something Apple has to fix, from the discussions I read. Is this true? And if so, any ideas about how long Apple will take to fix it?

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