Lost Printer Sharing after HP Driver Upgrade.

I have a 3.06 Intel Core Duo iMac and a 253 Intel Core i5 Macbook Pro. Both are running 10.6.8. They have until recently successfully shared my HP C8180 All in One Printer, the iMac being connected to the printer via USB and to a Netgear Router via Ethernet and the Macbook Pro being linked to the router wirelessly.
Having just updated the HP Drivers via software update on both machines the Macbook Pro is no longer able to connect to the printer via the iMac wirelessly and the printer is not reported as being "Nearby". It does however connect via the iMac if it is connected to the router via Ethernet !
Printer sharing is on on the iMac, I have tried removing the printer from both machines Preferences and re-instating them (which coincidentally has meant I have lost the connection to "Lightscribe" and can't get it back on either machine !) I've tried installing the latest HP Software to try and get the Macbook pro to connect to the printer directly via the router but witth no success - it reports that some of the HP software is not compatible with 10.6.8 despite HP saying it is for 10.6.
Does anyone have any idea how I can get the laptop to print in the way it did up until earlier today and how to get "lightscribe" back?

After more experimentation I found that not only was Printer Sharing not working neither was File Sharing but printer sharing worked if both computers were connected to my Netgear router by ethernet but not when the laptop was connected wirelessly.
This suggested a wireless problem, possibly within the Netgear Router. As both could access the internet however they were connected to the router it looked as though the router was not passing an incoming wireless message from the laptop out to the iMac via ethernet.
I finally found a solution to the printer sharing part of my problem. I remembered eventually that I had a similar problem some many months ago and that it resolved itself after all of my equipment had been switched off and disconnected from the mains power.
Consequently I switched everything off, unplugged it all from the mains power supply and left it for 25 minutes. On reconnecting and rebooting everything the printer sharing now works properly again with the MacBook Pro connected wirelessly and the iMac via ethernet to the router an, for printing, the iMac via USB to the printer.
I think that the loss of "Lightscribe" may relate to the way the printer is set up internally. Reviwing the Printer User Manual I suspect that it is probably reverted to a set up allowing control of "Lightscribe" internally rather than via a computer (possibly this happened after a reset of the printer to factory settings some time in the past) and when I removed Lightscribe from the list of printers in the iMac's Print & Fax preferences the iMac couldn't find it again. As I don't use "Lightscribe" I'm leaving well alone.
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