HP Photosmart 8450: use Leopard driver, or do I install HP's software?

I've successfully installed the HP Photosmart 8450 by just attaching it to the Leopard Mac, and the Mac recognizes the printer and picks the right driver.
However, it seems this is just the driver alone, and does not come with the interface that provides multitudes of printing options -- i.e. the interface that I get when I use the Photosmart 8450 when printing on Windows XP.
I managed to download this massive driver from HP's website, 127.5 MB entitled "HPPhotosmart_Installer10.2-10.4.dmg". I suspect that file contains all the bells and whistles that HP provides along with the print driver.
However, HP's website refers to this driver as 10.4 compatible, and doesn't mention 10.5 Leopard.
My question is, now that my Mac is printing to Leopard, should I now install this driver that I obtained from the HP website.
Ok, I'm rattled. I've spent the last week, with 2 sleepless nights, fighting the blue screen, getting Leopard to finally work. Now that it is working great, I am paranoid about doing something that will sink the ship. (No, Apple, it doesn't just work anymore). Hence, I want to see if others have installed this because taking the plunge.

p/s
I managed to find them.
e.g. let's say I am printing a Safari webpage. When I go to the PRINT screen, there is a pulldown menu that says SAFARI. If you pull down that menu, all the printing options are there.
When I try printing from other applications e.g. Microsoft Word, the PRINT screen has a pulldown menu where all the printer settings are accessible. The pulldown menu is not given an external title, and there seems to be no logic as to what its default item is, but the pulldown menu is there.
Not very user-friendly display, but I managed to find it.

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