How to Delete Phantom Appletalk Printers

It seems that my Appletalk network is now riddled with over a dozen phantom Appletalk printers and I cannot figure out how to get them to go away. We're all Tiger now, and in the good ol' days, renaming Appletalk printers was no biggie .. the new name simply replaced the old.
Not anymore. Each time I rename a printer, the new name simply adds an additional (non functional) printer name.
You cannot print to the old printer name, but since some of the old and new names are similar, this is getting to be REALLY confusing for my 50+ users. This seems to have started last year (I thought I was crazy), but now it's a nightmare.
HELP!! I know how to delete the printers from each individual user's printer setup, but I don't want these phantom printers broadcasting over Appletalk anymore. I've gone into Classic to see if I could use either the Apple Print Utility or HP Laserjet Utility to remove them, but it's not possible. Oh, we have only one DEFAULT Appletalk zone, if that matters.
Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
... sigh
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Hello Lisa,
The fact that you can see other AppleTalk printers would be a function of either the printers themselves or by other Mac's sharing their printers. The first thing I would do is ensure that printer sharing is disabled on all Mac's (providing of course that the printer is networked and not connected via a particular Mac's USB). Then I would check the config of all the printers you have to ensure they have only the same zone set. The other thing to check is that if the printer/s uses some sort of AppleTalk adapter, then this was configured for the one zone.
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