Printing thru an XP shared printer???

Okay, here's the setup...
Airport extreme network.
Powerbook G4 connected via wireless.
Windows XP tower connected via ethernet cable.
HP Officejet All-in-one connected to the XP tower.
I want to be able to print from my wireless Powerbook, thru the XP tower, to the HP all-in-one printer. But when I installed Bonjour for Windows and connected the HP all in one to the USB port in my Airport Extreme, I lost the ability to Scan. Seems the HP all in one need to be hard wired to do that.
So I reconnected the Printer to the back of the XP Tower and turned on the XP printer sharing. Went to my Powerbook, chose the "Windows Printer" driver option and found the Windows network. Connected to it and did a test print (safari apple page).
It printed all right... printed about 10 pages of gobbledygook. Lines and lines of random letters and numbers.
Does anyone know how I can get the powerbook to print to this HP without unplugging the USB cable from the XP Tower?
Thanks in advance.

By God, it worked!
I went to the link...
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
Downloaded and installed the file called "espgs..." first. Then downloaded and installed the "hpijs..." file. Made sure the XP printer was in Share mode, Rebooted my Mac, and went to "add" a new printer in the Print Setup Utility. Choose "Windows Printing" and selected the XP Network.
There was just one extra step that made all the difference...
In the Printer Browser, I double-clicked on the newly added driver (in this case it used the XP network name "HPOffice") and changed the Driver type from "Generic" to "HP" and found my printer model. Once that was done, it printed beautifully thru the Airport Extreme, thru the XP tower, to the USB HP all-in-one.
Thanks a million, Greg!

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