HP Officejet 6100 printing problems

Hi I got a new macbook and a Officejet 6100. I can print to it just fine when I connect the laptop to the printer through USB using the HP printing software. However I want to be able to share the printing using my PC in the other room. It is running windows XP and can print to the printer no problem. I shared the printer and I can view and add the printer from the mac Printer Setup Utility.
Now the problem is I don't have a proper PPD to use when I load up the networked printer. Right now when I connect the printer to the mac using the USB it gives me the PPD of HP All-In-One 3.0.1 which works great. But when I load up the same printer shared from the PC it doesn't let me choose that PPD. It only lets get get to the built in mac os X PPDs which doesn't have the Officejet 6100 supplied. I looked up on the apple boards and support and according to apple the PPDs for the officejet 6100 are supplied in the system but I don't have them for some reason. I just re-installed the HP printers from the os x install cd as well. There is only one Officejet ppd supplied and that is for the 9100 which is a postscript printer.
I am pulling my hair out over this. Been working on it for hours with no luck. Please point me in the right direction and tell me what I am doing wrong.
Thanks and take care.
MacBook 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks for the replies.
I have tried the HPIJS linux drives to no avail. When
I use them my print jop shows up on the PC queue but
dissipears right away and nothing gets printed. They
don't seem to work for my Officejet 6100. Could it be
because it's an intel mac and these are ppc
drivers?
I hope not. Rosetta should take care of that. If not, I will be in big trouble, too.
Have you tried the OS X stuff at this HP website?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=2383 98&dlc=en&os=219
Phil

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