Slow Bluetooth Printing

I have an HP deskjet 460 with an AmbiCom Bluetooth Printer Kit which has a USB sender unit for the computer and a reciever unit that plugs into the printer. I can print from the PowerBook G4 (10.4.4) on USB cable without a problem. Switching to BT still works, only it prints at about 4 minutes per 1 page, hardly useful. This same configuaration set up on 2 different XP laptops, prints the same documents with little or no delay. The printer works, the bluetooth kit works, what am I missing on the Mac? I've looked for drivers and firmware updates to no avail. Anyone have a suggestion on what to try next?
Thank you.

matt
i may have! i haven't looked at this specifically but i have been trying to sort out a networking printer problem, and came across this "tip" - when you are adding your printer if you alt and click on the more printers option you get the advanced options, which include bluetooth.
that may be worth a look?
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