Shared printer doesn't appear on other Macs

I've had a Brother HL 4050 color laser printer for several months. It's worked great on my home network. I connected its Ethernet to my Time Capsule, and my wireless machines could print to it with no problems.
The only quirk has been that the printer would not appear automatically in the Add Printers dialog. I had to enter its Bonjour address (e.g. "Warhol.local" in the IPP dialog.
Now I want to reconfigure my network a bit. I have a G5 running Leopard that I'm using as a home media server. I want to connect the Brother printer to the G5 using USB, then share the printer via the G5 to the rest of my network.
I got the Brother printer working fine with the G5. I verified that the combo can print. I turned on Printer Sharing on the G5.
The problem is (as before) I can't see the shared printer on the other Macs. Unlike before, entering a Bonjour address (e.g. "Pema.local", the name of the G5) doesn't work.
I know the other Macs can see the printer over the network. Using Bonjour Browser, I see the printer "Warhol @ Pema" in the Internet Printer Protocol list. mDNSResponder shows an entry for "Warhol\032@\032Pema.ipp.tcp.local". But the Printer Browser simply won't show it. And I can't figure out the combination of Bonjour address and queue name to connect to the printer via IPP.
I checked the Console as a run the Printer browser, and I see an interesting entry:
2009.05.04 14:14:25 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[555]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2009.05.04 14:14:25 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10b970.sandbox-compiler[652]) Bug: launchdcorelogic.c:6703 (23714):0: mspolicynew(targetj, target_service, flags & BOOTSTRAPALLOWLOOKUP, flags & BOOTSTRAPPER_PIDSERVICE, false)
It seems that the Bonjour daemon is crashing when accessed by the Add Printer browser.
Does anyone know why the printer (either directly connected or shared via Leopard) won't appear in the Bonjour network browse?
And does anyone know how to set up the IPP dialog to print to a shared printer?

With the help of Greg's post above, I did figure out how to use IPP with the shared printer.
I did have some difficulty figuring out the queue name. On the G5 with the printer, it said the queue name as "BrotherHL_4070CDWseries", so that's what I tried first in the IPP printer dialog on my MacBook. But when I tried to print, the Print Queue window for the printer briefly flashed "Destination printer does not exist!".
I remembered the CUPS web interface, so I looked at that for my machine (http://localhost:631/) and the G5 print server (http://Pema.local:631/). When I viewed the printer list on the server, the URL was "http://pema.local:631/printers/BrotherHL_4070CDWseries".
So I went back to the IPP dialog, used "printers/BrotherHL_4070CDWseries" as the queue name, and it worked.
Now I can print, but I still don't see the print server in the Bonjour browser. Problem solved, but mystery remains...

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