HP JetDirect 170X and Airport Snow - TCP/IP setup?

Let me just say first, I have no experience in this... so I want to add my HP LaserJet 1200 that I just got the HP JetDirect 170X printer server for as a wireless printer routed through my Airport. I have it connected via ethernet to my LAN port in my Airport Snow base station.
My big question is: How do I figure out the IP address for it? HP's support application is OS9 based, and doesn't see my printer in the Apple Share printers. This is the step that HP tells me to go through to get the IP address, but if it can't find the printer, I can't really get to that step.
I have Apple Share on. I have enabled printer sharing. But I can't figure out what IP address to give when I go to add it as a TCP/IP printer in the OSX printer setup utility. For kicks, I gave it the Airport IP address, thinking that's where it needed to look, and added it as a printer, and it seemed to accept that, but I still can't print to it... how long should I wait to see if something comes out? I get the "will retry in 10 seconds..." then "in 20 seconds..." once I send a print job to print.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
dual USB iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Airport Snow

Never mind. I figured it out... I didn't recognize the printer name in the Apple talk list of available printers (it came up as some weird "Carpenters/Caspers" name that I've never seen before and I thought that might be my airport picking up someone else's computer. After figuring that out, following the HP website's instructions worked like a charm when I assigned it a manual IP address.

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I have now changed settings as you advised from WDS to Ethernet for the Express>BT Home Hub connection.
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