MBP doesn't see shared/Bonjour printers

My MBP (10.5.1) doesn't see any shared printer connected to a different machine. The only "shared" printer it will display is "Adobe PDF 8." My 3 other Macs (also 10.5.1) see, and print to, my shared printer, so I'm 100% sure the problem resides on the MBP.
I can do all other kinds of sharing on my MBP, i.e., screen sharing, remote login, etc. It just won't see other printers. I'm thinking maybe a printer port is blocked or something, but if it is I don't know how to unblock it. The drivers for the remote printers are installed on my MBP.
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Harry,
Since I don't know what all you have tried, I don't know if you and I are seeing similar symptoms due to the same problem or not. I'm going to paste in the link to a thread that I started trying to solve a problem that I'm having. PAHU has been very helpful in making suggestions, and he has a recent one that I'll try when I get home this evening.
Here's the link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1284467&tstart=25

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