HP Printer Software Installation will not complete

I have an HP Officejet 8500 wireless bought in late 2011. Never an issue until a recent new printer added to the computer seems to have changed an unknown setting and now printer or computer will not recognize or initiate a wireless print request. Have tried all firmware updates, software updates, etc. Printer is perfectly connected to wireless network established by router. Any wireless print request from my MacBook is met with a "printer offline" description and sits in printer que. Printer works(ed) fine when connected via USB to MacBook.
Thought to uninstall/reinstall printer software hoping to reachieve initial set up defaults which have been working well prior to addition of new printer to computer.
Uninstalled HP software; result was normal. Inserted original software CD and tried to re-install software; result was as expected until step 5. Comments now read Installing HP Scan, Install was successful. Software has stalled on "5 items remaining" and will not move on to "4 items remaining" as next step.
HP Uninstaller is not yet in HP application file, Attempting to "quit" HP Installer generates a warning window indicating "files could be damaged" which is same window generated when trying to shut down computer using Apple shutdown command. Shutdown ends up being cancelled by HP Installer.
Computer is stuck and I'm stuck and I still don't know if reinstall would have solved original problem. Hours into troubleshooting... any help available would be appreciated. MacBook running OS X 10.6.8 all updates complete. Thanks

Thanks Bob - yes - setup from printer display to wireless network was done originally when printer was new and again today in attempt to reestablish whatever setting might have been accidentally changed. Printer is "perfectly" connected to wireless network with Excellent signal quality, etc... As is Macbook perfectly connected to wireless network.
Problem now is that when trying to reinstall original HP printer software to computer the installation process has frozen. I now cannot end the installation process or shut down the computer without potential fear of "damaging files". I also am concerned that if I power off manually (hard shutdown) that I will not be able to uninstall those HP files that have been installed thus far before the process stalled.

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