Help! Printer Problem

Hi everyone, here's is the situation. My Dad bought my Mom a Dell Inspiron laptop running vista64, I know, I know She can print fine when the epson rx680 is directly connected to her laptop. She can print fine to the printer, which is connected to the Airport Extreme, when she connects the ethernet cable from the AE, but when she try's printing wirelessly it prints funny. Meaning the document starts to print the first page ok, gets about half way through the second page and then stop's, after about 50 seconds its starts to print again, continuing on the second page, except it will start to print the top of the first page on the bottom of the second page, and then start the same process over and over again. It just keeps printing.
We have tryed Bonjour and the manual setup of Standard TCP/IP port, puting the AE ip 10.0.1.1 as the printer Name,niether will let it print correctly. I hope some one can help we dont want to call a network geeks in.
thnx Jess

We're all still looking. I've asked the same thing here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2221755&tstart=0, and to my knowledge nobody's found a workaround yet.
...+but we're all still looking for one!+
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