Snow leopard and pixma problems, why won't bonjour find printer?

I have been a fool, my printer was working fine its a pixma mp990 (its a 3 in 1 scanner), working wirelessly. Then I decide to upgrade to snow leopard. On my imac and macbook, Pixma couldn't be found, so reinstalled on macbook and now it will print. But not the imac. I have re-installed the printer, but all I get in the 'add printer' dialogue box is the Bonjour pixma scanner. No sign of the printer. I know its on the network cos the macbook can see it and windows xp can see it. I thought things like this only happened in windows, but I am really despairing with my mac, there are just so many problems.

Well, the printer works again, after about 4 hours of fiddling about. That just leaves me with a Time Machine error- it won't back up any more. Also I have an Aperture library that won't back up (some sort of error) and an idisc which refuses to sync (don't know why), oh and parallels 3 has been wiped off my computer since upgrading to snow leopard (thanks for that, Apple). And my Huey monitor calibrator doesn't work properly, and my imac mouse refuses to scroll as it should, despite cleaning. So much for getting a Mac because 'it just works'. When I check out my various problems on the interweb I can see dozens of similar problems going back over the months from a variety of people. Drobo is just a pain in the proverbial. Right, which problem shall I deal with first ....

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