Canon ip4300: suddenly no duplex printing

I have a Powerbook G4 15in running 10.5.8 (the latest OS this non-Intel machine will run) and a desktop iMac 24in which I've recently upped to 10.6.4 from 10.5.x. The iMac is linked via a cable to a Canon ip4300 inkjet, and the Powerbook prints to that wirelessly via sharing on the iMac.
Since upping the iMac to 10.6, when I've tried to print duplex pages from the Powerbook, it nonetheless insisted on printing single pages, despite the settings. Must be the driver needs updating, I thought. So I downloaded the latest 5.83 driver from the Canon site, to the Powerbook, and installed it. Now I don't even get a duplex option in the print dialog on the Powerbook!
Can anyone help?

I'm pleased to say Pahu kindly put me right on this, in the 10.6 section (the question covered 10.5 and 10.6, so I posted in both sections). See...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2569369&tstart=0

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