Continued issues with printing from Windows laptop to Mac

I have an iMac running Tiger (10.4.8) with a Brother MFC-8640D attached via USB. The iMac is connected to a Linksys wireless router via Ethernet cable. I have two Windows laptops (Sony Vaio and Dell Inspiron), both running XP; they connect wirelessly to the Internet and to the iMac.
I used Bonjour for Windows to set up the Brother printer. Initially, I used the Windows driver, but my print jobs would show as completed but not actually print. Following the suggestions in several posts, I used the Apple Laserwriter PS driver. What happens now is that the print job stops and can't be restarted.
Can anyone tell me what I should try next? Someone mentioned setting up a "raw queue" on the Mac, but I don't know how to do that.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Take a look at this article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2231.html
Also make sure you have set up your windows computer to share your printer. I have my mac mini printing wireless through my us robotics router on my windows xp printer. Print with it all the time, never had a problem.

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