LaserJet  vs leopard

Can I or can I not use my Hp LaserJet 4M with my new iMac 24 and Leopard?
This ran fine under all versions of Mac OS and the hardware dating back to my 8100.
And it still works flawlessly with Panther and my G4.
What is the reason all of these people on this board are having trouble with their laser printers now under leopard?

The printer driver that comes with leopard for the LaserJet 4M printer does not work. Seems like the 5M works sort of, but the 4M just goes offline after cyling through the download. I loaded the Foomatic driver and some other pepperspray drivers but I can't figure out the set-up. This is a big problem for me because I can only get hardcopy outputs from a few programs like Illustrator. Text apps like MAIL do not print.
Anyone know of a work around or have a link to an actual "working" HP LJ4m driver?

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