Powerbook Printing to a WinXP PC with Shared printer issue

I've recently made the switch for my laptop to a Powerbook G4 and am very very happy with it. There is only one thing that I cannot seem to get working though.
I have a Canon i950 Photo Printer hooked up to my desktop XP machine via USB and have it shared for network use. When I try to print to it over the network with my Powerbook, no matter what I try the text is always comicly small to the point that it is unreadable... picture a full page of text printed into the top corner of the page, scaled down.
When I connect the i950 directly to the powerbook with USB, it prints perfectly and I've got no issues. It appears that it uses a different driver for local printing as opposed to network printing.
Does anyone know of anything I can try to resolve this?

I dont have an airport express, but the thought did
cross my mind to pick one of those up. I'm not
familiar though how an XP machine would connect to
the Airport Express though.
Accessing a Airport Network with a Windows XP PC or laptop (with XP SP2)
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1011.html
Accessing a Airport Network with a Windows XP PC or laptop (with XP SP1)
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1010.html
The desktop has a
wireless card in it so I should still be able to I
would think... Just connect to it as a network
printer?
Printing from a Windows XP PC to a printer attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station or Airport Express
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1004.html
Printing from a Windows XP PC to a printer attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station or Airport Express using Bonjour
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1008.html
Problems with finding Printer Driver on Windows XP when using printer connected to Airport Extreme or Express
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1012.html

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