Printing from a Mac to a Windows XP printer through a wireless router

I have searched through many posts and still cannont come up with an answer.
I have a Lexmark X5100 printer connected to an XP PC in my home. My iMac is recieving internet wirelessly from a router connected to the PC. I am trying to figure out how to print from my iMac to the printer connected to the PC. I have turned on printer sharing on the PC and the Mac, and when I go to the Printer Setup Utility>Add Printer>More Printers>Windows Printing>mshome, it gives me a list of printers, but none of these printers is the one that I want to print to.
I have also tried windows printing via SAMBA, but the printer driver is not listed in the menu, even though I installed it from the internet.
Am I able to print to this printer wirelessly, or is this just an impossible task?
iMac 2 GHz 20' Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM

I just went thru this with an HP Wireless Printer 6980. I had to originaly set up the printer with Windows. Once I had the windows machine working wirelessly with the printer ; I installed the software that came with the printer to the iMac. After the software was successfully installed ; I went to Utilities , and Printer set-up Utility and the iMac found the wireless printer and all I had to do was add it to the list at that point. It can work .... but it did take some trial and error to get it working. Good Luck !!

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