Printer Stopped Working

We are running OS X Server 10.3.9. We connect VPNs to our office and have a mix of Mac & WinXP Computers. We setup an HP Bus Inkjet 2800 off of the USB port of the Server. We then started Print Services on the OS X Server. For the Queue we used all of the protocols to share (AT/LPR/SMB). All went well to start, winXP over the VPN and in the office printed ok. Out of the blue we can no longer print from WinXP machines. Coincidentally perhaps, the first time a Mac printed over the VPN, with success, we could no longer print from WinXP. Have not been able to get it going again. Restarted print services and the server itself w/no luck. Deleted and re-added printer...still no luck.
The Log reflects a couple of "Issues". The errors shown are:
"No Printcap File Name configured!"
"registermessage_flags:tdbfetch failed"
I'm hoping someone can provide some insight, I'm dying here! :o)
Acktom

Acktom -
A few questions... Our printer stopped working out of the blue. We completely reloaded the server tonight and they still do not work.
My question to you: Did they stop working after you applied a system update. Ours did.
Lastly, do you get a message like lpr: clientconnectionfailure in the Windows service log, Print Services ( I think I have it right)? We get this error. then we check /etc/cups/printers.conf and find the name of the printer is spelled differently. HP LaserJet 5Si vs HPLaserjet5Si
I think our problem stems from spacing. But our server worked for about 2 years without any real changes. We have traced it back to that system update. For this reason, we completely reloaded the server to try to resolve it. We applied updates after the server was reloaded thinking this was a positive thing. But really, we have the same problem -- no printing from Windows XP clients.
Our next step is to rename the Appletalk name of the HP Laserjet so there are no spaces in the name.
I also have found that when we add a printer with an address of 192.168.0.51, that is now the queue name for the printer. Where we have a queue specified as HPLaserJet5Si. I think apple has created some problems here. But we have no support contact and cannot afford their support arrangments. So we are trying and not having much luck.

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