Need guru assistance printing over airport to unsupported printer

OK. I have an HP 3650 attached to an Airport Express. In my home wireless network (powered by Buffalo router) there are several windows machines and one mac mini, all connecting over 802.11g.
I cannot print to this printer using the Mac mini, and I guess that makes sense, it's not supported. But I configured the Airport using the mac, and I can print to that printer wirelessly using my windows machines.
In fact, technically, I can even print from the Mac mini - when I'm printing from Windows XP home in a Parallels session. So it drives me nuts nuts NUTS that I can't print natively from OS X, even using direct IP printing and CUPS drivers and whatnot.
Anybody out there got the elite skills to get this thing working? I just can't bring myself to buy a new printer just because "the world's most advanced operating system" can only print to it when running Microsoft software.
tl;dr - how can I hack my OSX to print natively to my HP 3650 over airport express?
Thanks in advance
-Kurt

Have you downloaded the latest drivers from HP? It's a Deskjet correct? There are OSX drivers on HP's support page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=219&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&produc t=304535&lang=en

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