PC can't connect ( by bonjour ) to Mac shared printer

New Mac user love it so far - Love iLife!
I have an iMac, 10.5.1. Have an HP printer connected to the iMac and it works good. I wanted to share the printer to my wireless net so my windozes PC ‘s can print to it. I have shared it system preferences. When I run the bonjour printer setup wizard it reports that there are NO printer available.
what did I miss setting up to get allow the PC to connect to the MAC printer
Thanks

Have you looked into this?
Bonjour is a networking protocol that sends and receives network packets on UDP port 5353. If you have a "personal firewall" enabled, you will need to ensure that UDP port 5353 is open for Bonjour to work correctly. Certain firewalls will only partially block Bonjour packets, so if you experience intermittent behavior, check the firewall settings and verify that Bonjour is listed as an exception and is allowed to receive incoming packets. Bonjour will configure the Windows firewall appropriately during installation on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and above.
Does your situation meet these requirements?
I use Bonjour at work on a PC network, HP printers (4) no Macs. Works great.
At home I have a wireless HP printer that connects thru Bonjour with the Mac, but I have a PC notebook that prints to the printer with the standard TCP/IP setup in XP sp2. This requires installing drivers and assigning a port and all the rest of the garbage.
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