Printing from Lion to Xp shared printer

Under Snow Leopard, I could easily print to printers shared by computers running Windows. This is on my simple home LAN with a Windows workgroup.
After upgrading to Lion, this capability seems lost...or changed...or broken.
I have done a lot of googling, and lots of folks seem to have this problem, but I have found no consistent solution.
I have tried removing printer entires from Key Chain, removing and reinstalling the printer (on both the Mac side and the Windows side), removing special characters from my Windows password, reseting the Mac printing system, and combinations of these approaches and nothing works.
Anyone have anything else to suggest? Any "guaranteed" solutions?
I see a couple failure modes...usually Lion reprots the print job has been sent, but nothing actually gets printed, and Lion never reports the job completed. Other times Lion shows the pinter as "paused".
Thanks,
Mark

Rather than use SMB to connect from Lion to the Windows XP printer share, a better method is to enable Print Services for UNIX on Windows XP and then use LPD on the Mac to print via the Windows share.
To install Print Services for UNIX on Windows XP:
Log on to the Windows server with an administrative-level account.
Start the Add/Remove Programs tool in Control Panel.
Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
Click Other Network File and Print Services, and then click Details.
Click to select the Print Services for UNIX check box, and then click OK.
Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the installation
If you haven't done so already, share the printer on Windows XP and make the name one word - no spaces or special characters
With the print services enabled you can then create the printer queue on Lion.
Open Print & Scan and click + to add a printer
Select the IP icon and set the protocol to Line Printer Daemon - LPD
For the Address, enter the IP address of the Windows XP computer
For the Queue name, enter the share name set for the printer in Windows XP
Name and Location are free text so you can set this to something meaningful
For the Print Using menu, select the supporting printer driver. Note that like connections via SMB, the vendors driver for Lion in some cases cannot be used and an alternate like those offered by the Gutenprint suite must be used.
Click the OK button to complete the queue creation.
Now you are ready to test the new print queue.

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Rather than use SMB to connect from Lion to the Windows XP printer share, a better method is to enable Print Services for UNIX on Windows XP and then use LPD on the Mac to print via the Windows share.
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Log on to the Windows server with an administrative-level account.
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