Snow Leopard - Printer Issue, Really Need Suggestions

Yesterday I completed my upgrade to Snow Leopard.  Had waited as long as I could, finally gave in.  Now I'm having a problem with one printer and I'm at this point out of ideas and could use some suggestions.
This is for my small business, my office.  I have two Airport Extreme's.  One connects cable modem to my network (physically located in a distant part of my office), second is connected to my DSL modem via hub, and I have a hub line off of that Airport Extreme (located at my desk).  I am also connecting my Ethernet 1 port to a hub (same hub that the below HP-4200n mentioned is connected to).  I have multiple printers scattered throughout the office, all connected to the network through hubs.  Up until yesterday I was able to print from my computer to any printer in the office with no problems, and has been that way for several years.  Now that I've upgraded to Snow Leopard on my own computer I am no longer able to connect to or print to my HP-4200n which is located about two feet from my desk (printer is connected to a hub, and that hub is connected to the Airport Extreme at my desk).  I am still able to print to all other printers.  And I can go to other computers (one running Leopard and one running OS 9!), connected to the hub, and print to the HP-4200n with no problem from either of those.
Thus far (in addition to yanking on my hair) I have removed all my printers from the list (they were all there after the Snow Leopard upgrade), and have installed them one at a time.  I've also removed all printers and the installed only the HP-4200n.  I've been to the HP site which confirmed that the Snow Leopard disk contained all of the correct drivers, and the HP-4200 series is on the list.  Just for the heck of it I also went ahead and installed a new release of HP drivers just to see if they'd released something (like the "my HP-4200 won't print driver fix"!), and that didn't change anything.
The only other "quirky" thing that I've noticed is that before, sitting at my computer I could print to any of the other printers and it didn't make a difference which Airport Extreme I was using....but now, I seem to have to use the one that is at my desk (that is the DSL feed, ano  has a hub line off of that).  If I'm on the other Airport Extreme, no connections.
That's where I am, and I'm out of ideas.  I really don't want to have to disconnect the wiring from all the hubs as it took a bit to figure this all out and get it to work the first time.  And since I haven't physically changed anything yet, and since I can print to the HP-4200n from the other computer....that seems to verify that all network connections are still good anyway.  This seems to be something isolated and connected to the Snow Leopard upgrade. 
I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions!

I still think that your best options are (1) revert to what your Mac was running before or (2) bite the bullet and unify your network.
Some questions:
1) You imply that the DSL modem is connected to a hub.  If that modem is strictly a modem without any router functionality, unless it has some mojo going there should be a router between that modem and a hub.  A hub shouldn't connect directly to a modem unless the modem can distribute multiple IP addresses.
2) I tried to map your network, but you gave just enough information to give me a headache without being able to complete the map.
3) It seems that your Mac Pro has two Ethernet ports and that you have one port connected to each network.  I have no experience with how that might be made to work, but is it possible that at some point someone did some tweaking of the software on your Mac Pro and that installing Snow Leopard undid those tweaks?
4) I'm not sure what you mean by "it didn't make a difference which AirPort Extreme I was using".  Does this suggest that you were somehow switching between them?

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