Problems with Lion printing to Brother printers via Bonjour

Just got a new Mac Mini with Lion pre-installed.  It's replacing a G5 tower.  I also have a MBP running Snow Leopard for work.  The non-Lion machines have no problems printing to my Brother MFC-8840DN printer.  I spent several hours trying to get the Mac Mini to print properly though via Bonjour.  I tried installing/uninstalling/reseetting the printer subsystem, etc. numerous times.  I also tried downlolading the drivers direct from Brother and installing those after a printer system reset and a reboot.  No luck.  The printer would just print sheets and sheets of blank or corrupt data (smiley faces and the like).
So I finally gave up on Bonjour and just tried to add the printer manually via LPR & specifying it's IP address and the correct driver from the pull-down list.  Now it works fine.  So my question is, what happened in Lion to break Bonjour printing but leave LPD printing intact?  Based on the output in Bonjour mode, it almost looks like OSX is somehow picking the wrong driver to use and therefore the printer is choking on nonsense data.

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