J4680 goes offline then ready every few seconds tying up system resources

Please, I hope someone can help with this. I have been back and forth with tech support for SIX MONTHS and can get no satisfaction (and I try).
My J4680 wireless printer keeps turning itself offline for a few seconds, then goes back to ready a few seconds later. It slows down everything my laptop does -- email, word, excel, etc. It took months just to figure out the printer was the problem with my slow computer performance!
Long story is I tried to add this in addition to a 5510 when I switched from a desktop to a laptop with a docking station (want to be able to print when not docked).
Six months later, I have uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times. I gave up trying to get both to work together and abandoned the 5510 a month ago. Now I just want to make the J4680 work properly. And I can't.
Has anyone heard of this?
More info:
I am using a Lenovo laptop running XP.
The router is a Linksys WRT54G
My most recent attempt at fixing this was to follow HP tech's suggestion: uninstall all software HP, uninstall the HP folder in Program Files and change the twain.dll and twain32.dll in Windows folder to twainold.dll and twain32old.dll. They had me try to do do something with the SNMP Status Enabled (which was not valid) and set the device discovery service to manual (which didn't work).
I reinstalled everything. This is the frustrating thing: It worked fine for the first day, it always does right after I install it. But once I turn off the computer and restart, the printer starts up again turning itself offline, then online, then offline. (You can watch it do this in the printers folder. I watch it often. And scream.)
Please please please, does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks.
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OK, the service mentioned above was related to "A generic host process for Win32 service has encountered a problem and needs to close". HP has acknowledged a driver and windows firewall issue. I am not sure if this will fix my ready/offline flickering, but may it will in your case.:
HP' site: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00273968&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_US...
Microsoft's link:
http://wer.microsoft.com/Responses/Response.aspx/14844/en/5.1.2600.2.00010100.3.0?SGD=9baff353-3a64-...
Good luck!
LK

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