Leopard keeps losing my shared printer

I have a 500 MHz TiBook running 10.4.11 that I have been using a print server and file server. My printer is connected to the TiBook by USB, and shared through the Sharing Preference Panel.
My main work computer is a MacBook Pro. When I had 10.4 installed on my MBP, it remembered the existence of the shared printer. However, since upgrading to Leopard, my MBP keeps forgetting about the shared printer. I frequently have to "Add new printer". This process takes a long time, because it insists on searching for new drivers, etc.
Does anyone know if there is something I can change in my configuration to make Leopard remember that this shared printer exists, and that it is my default printer?
Upgrading the TiBook to Leopard is not an option, because it is a 500 MHz machine.

This was fixed by the OS 10.5.2 update.

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