Mac/Windows Printer Sharing

I have an HP officejet d135 attached to my windows XP home computer.
Both my Mac Mini and Windows is going through a router. Both machines can see each other on the network and I can share files.
The problem is that I cant seem to get Mac to print properly. It sees the printer when I try to do it through samba and when I hit print the printer fires up but all I get is junk out of it.
I have tried the help pages and cant seem to work it out.
I am a noob swithcher so my knowledge base on Mac is limited.
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to cure this.
TIA
Charlie
Mactel Mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,
I am facing a similar problem... my father uses WinXP at home, with a HP Deskjet 3920 attached to it. I convinced my mother to buy a G4 iBook, and now she's all happy about it. I just set up a wireless internet connection at their home, and I am trying to use dad's printer from mom's iBook. The printer is being shared just fine, and I guess my problem is driver related as well.
Printer type is set as PS as default, and I believe this printer isn't PS-capable: print job gets into XP's queue, but printer refuses to print it. However, if I try to set its type to the right printer model, my printer simply doesn't appear on the options of HP printers. I then went to HP's drivers site and apparently they do have a driver for this model: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=44544 2&lang=en&os=219
I downloaded and installed both the HP Inkjet Driver and the web installers for Deskjet printers; installations seemed to go by just fine, but still the Deskjet 3920 doesn't appear on the list of available HP printers. Any ideas? I am probably missing something, but I can't figure out what it is...
On a related issue: since they did me no good, how do I uninstall these drivers? (I am a seasoned Linux user, but I am still finding my way around on Macs; so, please bear with my newbie questions =))
TIA
Andre
G4 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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