Read Tiger install and now can't recognize printer. Help me Obi Wan!

Running a Mac 450 G4 under 9.2.2. I've been using OS 9.2.2 happily for years but encouraged to upgrade to 10.4. I took the big step and bought Tiger, installed a second internal drive just in case, but was too chicken to go all the way: I put the OS 10 DVD in my drive and read it carefully ONLY but did not install it. Now, the computer won't recognize my printer ( HP deskjet 1220C ) no matter what I do. I tried reinstalling the printer driver from HP but no luck. I'm ready to burn my computer, turn OS 10.4 back into the dealer and stay OS 9.2 until I die. What the **** did I do? Help me Obi Wan! You're my only hope!

The error message shown says " The file will be moved to the trash because no desktop printer exists for this spool file."
The "usual" HP printer icon no longer shows on the desktop at startup. Reinstalling the printer driver - as provided by HP - did not do anything.
When I go to chooser the printer is shown there. I select it and close the window as instructed by HP but the printer icon still doesn't show up on the desktop. I am able to open the HP printer utility and can print out a "test page from it but thats all I am able to get.
Since the last time I printed out some files, everything worked fine. I did have a new internal hard drive installed as a second drive by a local Mac shop yesterday. They initialized the new drive for me since I wanted to use it to back up my original, Apple installed drive and files before I attempted to upgrade to OS 10.4 tiger.
This is EXTREMELY frustrating. Did I screw something up? Did my local Mac shop screw something up? Does just starting up the OS 10 disk in order to read it do something? Is this a problem similar to " aborted OS 10 installs?"
Thank you very much for responding and trying to help me. You have no idea how much I appreciate your getting back to me on this.
G4   Mac OS 9.2.x  

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