MacBook Wirelessly Printing on a PC Network

I am completely new to the PC Networking..
I have a Canon MF6550 and HP Laserjet 1600, both hooked up to the PC and on a network where our second PC can print wirelessly.
We now have a MacBook and would like to also print wirelessly.
I have read many many posts in the Apple Discussions and on the internet in general.. after a bunch of days of trying everything, I'm at a loss. I can't get it to work so far.
Please help.

I've followed these directions before.. yet, they don't seem to work for me.
In the WINS tab, do I put in the "computer name" (which it says is "Computer Name: karens." not the Computer Name Description) for the "NetBIOS Name", or do I put in the Workgroup, which it says is "Workgroup: WORKGROUP." How would I do that?
And then when I try to add either one of the printers (neither one of the drivers show up). Its funny because when I have the printer MF6550 hooked up via USB the mac will find the driver automatically, yet when I try to add it wirelessly, it doesn't find anything and there isn't a driver that at all looks like that model listed.
So many darn bells and whistles. I want to curse the PC, but I can't, I have to work with it. Any help is appreciated.
We are using a Dell Windows XP and Mac 10.5.6. And we had someone setup the network for wireless printing for the PCs a while back, I have no idea how they did it.

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