Nightmare with a Samsung Wifi printer 2165W

Hello,
I've just bought a Samsung 2165W "wifi" printer. I've spent the last five hours trying to configure it to my wireless network. The problem appears to be not my technical ineptitude, but the fact that the instructions provided, the programs on the installation CD and the support section of the Samsung website do not tally with the reality of using a computer (I'm on a MacBook pro, running OSX 10.7.4).
I have followed the installation instruction to the letter. The printer works when connected via USB; but there is absolutely no way I can connect the computer to my wifi network (I don't have a screen on my printer that would allow me to select my network, the Samsung software does seen to want to give me that option either).
I got very excited when I noticed that there was a recently-launched piece of software on the Samsung support site called 'Wireless setting'. It does absolutely nothing apart from raise my blood pressure.
Does anyone have any experience of this before I through the printer out of the window?

I had the same problem, and I eventually fixed it. I installed the printer like they said with the usb cable etc, but in the connectivity section of the installation there was an advanced tab, I entered my WIFI details, WEP Key etc...
Once it was installed the printer would not connect up... So in the printer settings I removed the Samsung printer then re-added it manually... It then came online for about a minute just at random intervals. During one of the online phases I took the IP address down from the Samsung Printer Manager Utility...
I then reinstalled the printer a third time, but from the IP address only... Since then it has worked like a charm...
I think the printer itself is great as a cheap compact high quality printer... But the software is ridiculous! It is clearly not MAC compatible from the offset and you must use OS X to manually set it up...
Samsung need to get it together, because this printer very nearly went through the window!
I have attached a couple of screen shots to hopefully help...

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