New to MAC, trying to install CANON MP520

Hello,
I'm new to MAC, I bought an iMAC 8,1 several days ago with operating system 10,5 (I guess?!...)
I'm still struggling to get rid of old window-habits, but first days working with this machine was fun!... until i tried to install my new flashy printer via wireless router...
The printer is a CANON MP520, the router a USR5461. Tried following the guidelines for installation provided by USR, but it doesn't seem to be up-to-date (Printcenter is not installed on my MAC while USR thinks it should be?!...). Anyway, tried it another way (a bit on intuition, a bit on forum searching) by adding it in printerlist:
First choose tab “IP”
Protocol: IPP
Cue: nothing
Host: ip of my router
Location: printer location as specified on router status page
Now, I downloaded a driver from canon website for MP520 on MAC, went pretty easy (downloading software is nice and easy on MAC, I must say), so I could select “CANON MP520” as driver.
OK, everything works fine, tried printing a page; result: error message “no pages found”
Searched some fora for a solution (in fact first USR website, but that didn’t help me a lot) and came up with this forum. I found a thread on a similar problem (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1605028&tstart=0), but to be honest, I don’t understand the solution (I tried re-installing the printer several times, same problem…)
It’s my first post here, sorry if this maybe is a trivial problem, but I’m new to all this and don’t know where to start looking for the solution, so if anyone can help me out here or redirect me to a more appropriate place to find help for this problem, please do so…
Thank you!

Wish that Windows habits somehow related...
OS X has two kinds of print drivers - Carbon and CUPS. With Carbon drivers, the author/manufacturer gets to specify which comm protocol(s) will work. Your Canon driver is a Carbon driver, and works only with USB. IP printing > IPP is a CUPS protocol, and requires a CUPS-capable driver. Apple included Gutenprint drivers (CUPS drivers) to try to get around this problem (that they created by allowing two kinds of driver). You might need to update your Gutenprint to have your model supported (I'm not certain - you'll need to check):
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
Next issue - US Robotics uses a non-standard port number for IPP, so you'll have to use the Advanced IPP protocol so you can put in that non-standard port in the setup. (Click the '+' button to add a printer. This opens the Printer Browser. Then hold down the Option key and click More Printers; this lets you access the "Advanced" options from the first popup menu.) Select IPP using IPP or http (they're the same). Enter the URI like:
ipp://[IP address here]:1631/printers/[queue name] listed in USR manual

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