Problems using a printer shared by a Windows XP PC

I'm having problems seeing my shared printers on my mac mini. The shared printers are hooked up to a Windows XP PC. There is another PC on the network that is running Windows 7. All 3 machines can access one another with respect to files. I have the Workgroup on all machines set to the same name. The printer shares are set up properly on the XP PC; the Windows 7 PC can use the printers and I might add that the mac mini can use them too when I'm running Windows 7 via bootcamp....it's just a no go with Snow Leopard.
When I use 'Print & Fax' in 'System Preferences' and try to add a printer (clicking the '+' icon) I don't see my printer on the 'Add Printer' dialog that is invoked after clicking '+'. I'm choosing the'Windows' toolbar icon at the top of the dialog...everything is grayed out and as I said just above, I don't
see my network. What am I overlooking?
Thanks for any pointers!

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