September 14 2010 Microsoft patch issue

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Hello all,
 I am about at the end of my rope on this one, I have a variety of HP printers at my office and I print to them via their static IP addresses. The patch that Microsoft put down on September 14, 2010 had a adverse affect to the printing to any PC's that were updated. The PC's can ping the address fine with no issues, but when you try to print their is always a error in printing. The PC's that were not updated do not have this problem. All of the PC's in question are running Windows XP, I did have a Vista machine running with it also but I was able to resolve the problem on that machine and the Windows 7 machines do not seem affected with the issue.
I am running out of ideas on how to resolve this issue, I have deleted the ports and drivers and reinstalled them. I have uninstalled the patches and also have done system restores to earlier dates in history. I have shutdown the firewalls on the machines and I have updated all the machines with the latest drivers from HP's website. But still when I try to print a test page nothing happens and it errors out. I took a machine out of storage with a clean install of Windows XP and updated it with all the patches and had no problem with adding the printers on the machine. I really don't want to reinstall all of the XP machines to correct the problem though. I did have on PC that was running with a laserjet 1160 connected via a USB port that had no IP printers setup on the system that I was able to update with the patch and easily install a laserjet M3035xs with no problems.
Also with this new patch the "Network Folders" feature of the Laserjet M3035xs cannot connect to any of the machines that were patched. So this machine that I just bought last week for the accounting office is pretty much worthless till I can find a way to resolve the issue.
Any and all ideas would be welcomed at the moment.
Thank you in advance for your suggestions in this.
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If you use mcafee total protection service, this may help.  I had this problem involving windows xp, hp printers and mcafee total protection service.  printer showed ready, could be pinged, right drivers, etc.  To resolve, I launched mcafee console, selected view application list from the drop down and for some reason, spooling was being blocked by the firewall.  Once I changed it to "allow" subsequent print jobs printed just fine.  Good luck.