How am I supposed to print anything - HP DeskJet 4260

No joy printing from 10.6 to an HP Deskjet 4260! I know that this is not the first post on this topic, but I have tried everything suggested in previous posts. I have deleted and reinstalled drivers in System Preferences. I have reinstalled HP drivers from the Snow Leopard install disk. I have downloaded and installed drivers from Apple. Someone said that they had downloaded new drivers in Software Update - I don't find anything new in Software Update, let alone new HP drivers.
Some of the beta testers must have had HP printers - how did they get them to work? Maybe releasing Snow Leopard ahead of schedule was not such a good idea.

follow this link to the other D4260 thread and on the second page follow dmilson's step by step instructions for uninstalling your 10.6 updates and then re-installing the 10.5 HP software for the D4260. It worked for those who tried. I am currently running Snow Leopard on a 2008 intel iMAC and can print on my D4260 because I am using the older drivers from 10.5
edit* its the same idea as Bigflow's, just its detailed step by step in the other thread
and it is annoying that the old software/drivers work just fine in SL but they get disabled when it is installed, but hey, at least re-installing the old drivers gets the printer to work
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2131292&start=15&tstart=0
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==============
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DrDans-AL-PbG4:~ DrDan$
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