Printer loads on 1 Mac but not another

I have a Lexmark x517 that will work great with my G4 TiPowerbook but not my G4 Quicksilver. The printer came with printer drivers on a CD which have been loaded onto both machines. Both are running OSX 10.4.8, so I don't get it.
When I open Printer Setup Utility on the Quicksilver and try to selct "add" it will act like the button was selected but then it won't do anything. I've tried to download every possible driver,etc. Nothing works. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the printer on my compuer using the Lexmark utilities that worked on my laptop.
One day I was really frustrated with the fact it wouldn't work so I started trashing everything I could find on my compuer having to do with Lexmark and then I re-installed everything. It still won't work.
If anyone could help. . . that would be fabulous! Thanks in advance!
G4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.8) Printer Setup Utility won't add printer

Paul, thank you so much for trying to help!
I tried the OS 10.4.8 update and that didn't work.
What's so weird is that my system profiler knows that a Lexmark 510 series printer is connected to the USB port. . . I just can't get the Setup Print Utility to add a printer.
Anyway. . . here's the print error log. Hopefully it tells you something. (cross my fingers!)
Thanks again so much!
Description: Printer error log
Size: 7.73 KB
Last Modified: 2/3/07 7:25 PM
Location: /var/log/cups/error_log
Recent Contents: ...
I [26/Nov/2006:09:34:14 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [26/Nov/2006:09:34:14 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [26/Nov/2006:09:34:14 -0500] Full reload is required.
I [26/Nov/2006:09:34:14 -0500] Full reload complete.
E [28/Nov/2006:11:22:11 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:11:22:12 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:11:22:12 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:11:22:12 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:08:41 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:08:41 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:08:41 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:08:41 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:14:34 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:14:34 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:14:34 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:14:34 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
E [28/Nov/2006:21:14:35 -0500] getprinterattrs: resource name '/printers/ ' no good!
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series device-uri to "file:///dev/null" (was "file:/dev/null".)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 0.)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series printer-state to 3 (was 5.)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Saving printers.conf...
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] New printer '510Series' added by ''.
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series device-uri to "file:///dev/null" (was "file:///dev/null".)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 1.)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:56 -0500] Setting 510Series printer-state to 3 (was 3.)
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:57 -0500] Saving printers.conf...
I [28/Nov/2006:21:19:57 -0500] Printer '510Series' modified by ''.
I [28/Nov/2006:21:20:35 -0500] Adding start banner page "none" to job 1.
I [28/Nov/2006:21:20:35 -0500] Adding end banner page "none" to job 1.
I [28/Nov/2006:21:20:35 -0500] Job 1 queued on '510Series' by 'rjones'.
I [28/Nov/2006:21:20:35 -0500] Started filter /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr (PID 1086) for job 1.
I [29/Nov/2006:22:00:03 -0500] Adding start banner page "none" to job 2.
I [29/Nov/2006:22:00:03 -0500] Adding end banner page "none" to job 2.
I [29/Nov/2006:22:00:03 -0500] Job 2 queued on '510Series' by 'rjones'.
I [29/Nov/2006:22:00:03 -0500] Started filter /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr (PID 1332) for job 2.
I [01/Dec/2006:23:46:51 -0500] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Listening to 3010a0:0
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Full reload is required.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:01:53 -0500] Full reload complete.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:02:30 -0500] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Listening to 3010e0:0
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Full reload is required.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:22:24 -0500] Full reload complete.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:46 -0500] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Listening to 3010e0:0
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Full reload is required.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:24:47 -0500] Full reload complete.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:14 -0500] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Listening to 3010e0:0
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Loaded configuration file "/private/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Full reload is required.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:20 -0500] Full reload complete.
I [03/Feb/2007:19:25:44 -0500] Scheduler shutting down normally.
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