Daily loss of IP address among other things

Officejet Pro 8500 A910
Windows 7-64bit
I love this printer!  Usually!
Two big problems though:  
On an almost daily basis the printer changes it's IP address.  I have to go to the printer, print the new network information, go back to my computer and re install the IP address.  WHY?!?!  This is beyond annoying.   It's only been happening for the last 3 months or so.   It says there is no software update or anything.
Second, I purchased this printer mainly because of the 2-sided printing feature.  Unfortunatly, when printing on the second side, it screws up the margins.  The top margin is always moved up to almost being OFF of the page.   This looks terrible, especially when I need this for college papers.
please help!

@ revitzer - One can actually setup a static IP for the printer itself. If you have the current ip of the printer, obtainable from the front panel of the 8500a, then you can type this into a web browser like a webpage. This is how one accesses the embedded web server (EWS) of the printer.
* Click the Networking tab at the top of the web page
* Select, under the wireless option on the left side of the screen, IPv4
* Set the manual IP address to the current IP that you used to access the web page
* Set the other values to the values your network uses (most subnet masks are 255.255.255.0 for example)
* One can also set the DNS servers manually. If you are going to do this it might be easiest to use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 primary and 8.8.4.4 for secondary)
As to the duplexing issue, I have heard of margin issues with some models that has been resolved by using a 990c driver. See Shane_R's thread located here for information about how to do this.
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