Print drivers won't install

I just put 10.4.3 on my computer and immediately upgraded to 10.4.4. I then tried to print a document only to discover that there were no longer any print drivers installed on my computer. I did find the installers for all the makes of printers but when I tried to install the driver software, I got error messages telling me that it was unable to extract the files.
My printer is an HP deskjet 970Cse, but the same thing happpens when I try to install driver software for every make of printer. I went to the HP website, and the driver for 10.4 is not available for download.
So now no printer will work on my computer, and as my four-year-old daughter would say, that's not good.

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