Printing using an Airport Extreme

Hello,
I recently bought a Airport Extreme Base in hope to print off all my Mac's and Pc's. I have the Airpot setup on my desktop PC, I have a Macbook Pro, Dell PC and a iMac.
The iMac is mine and I'd love to be able to print. But of course I can't. My Mac sees the printer and connects. I then attempted to print a document and it when into the Printer as a Job. It then tells me the connection to the printer failed.
I often get a error.
HpSuppliesTool quit unexpectedly. And this is my little report.
"Process: hpSuppliesTool [243]
Path: /Library/Printers/hp/Utilities/hpSuppliesTool.app/Contents/MacOS/hpSuppliesTool
Identifier: hpSuppliesTool
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: PrinterProxy [144]
Date/Time: 2009-09-07 21:56:30.008 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 30840 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 17
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7
Anonymous UUID: 3BD3548B-8801-4AB0-BAD5-FF70E1C768A5
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/HPServicesInterface.framework/Versions/B/HPServicesInterfac e
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/HPDeviceModel.framework/Versions/1.1/Frameworks/Core.framew ork/Versions/1.1/Core
Reason: image not found
Model: iMac9,1, BootROM IM91.008D.B08, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.44f0
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.19)
Bluetooth: Version 2.2.0f18, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDT721064SLA360, 596.17 GB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0x24400000
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0x24300000
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0x24330000
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0220, 0x24320000
USB Device: Hub, 0x058f (Alcor Micro, Corp.), 0x6254, 0x24100000
USB Device: Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc219, 0x24130000
USB Device: CTE-440-U V4.0-3, 0x056a (WACOM Co., Ltd.), 0x0015, 0x24140000
USB Device: My Book, 0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.), 0x1100, 0x26400000
USB Device: USB 2.0 Storage Device, 0x04a5 (BenQ Corporation), 0x1005, 0x26200000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x06110000"
And I have NO clue what I'm reading so I'd love it if someone could tell me my issue or work with me to fix this.
Also, the PC that the airport is connected to doesn't see the printer. Which is a bit disappointing as well.

You are obviously using printer driver for an older OS. Run Software Update to see whether your printer already have newer drivers available.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669

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