Home Network Vista PCs Cannot Print To LaserJet P2015 on Home Network

Here's the scenario and problems I am having...
I have a home network with 5 PCs - some Vista 32-bit, some Windows 7 32-bit. On one of the Vista PCs, a HP LaserJet P2015 is connected to it directly via USB, but it is also connected to a home network via a Linksys router.
Every PC was able to print fine to this printer, UNTIL I upgraded the PC with the printer connected to it from Vista to 7. Now, there are two issues:
1) Any Vista PC shows that you can connect to the printer, but it says UPDATE DRIVER. From the PC that is now Windows 7, it shows 3 drivers available to share: X86, X64, and ITANIUM. ITANIUM is uncheck, the others are checked. Apparently, the X86 driver is NOT for Vista, because it either does not install the driver, or it does install but it is not recognized - even when installing the VISTA driver for P2015 from the HP website, it continues to say UPDATE DRIVER. I have tried everything that I know of and can not figure this out.
2) The Windows 7 PCs (other than the one that has the printer connected to it) CAN print to this printer, but now, it is VERY slow, whereas before the upgrade of that one pc from Vista to 7, it printed at normal speed.
So, these are the two issues when the printer-attached PC was upgraded from Vista to 7. Obivously, issue 1) is much more important at the moment, but I have to believe that whatever is going on here is related to both issues.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me insane.
Thanks!
Andy

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