Suddenly unable to print from Win XP PCs to Time Capsule printer

I have a Canon MP610 printer attached to my early 2009 (dual radio) Time Capsule that worked perfectly on my home LAN until a few weeks ago. Macbook Air and two Win XP PCs could print over the LAN. Suddenly LAN printing for the two Win PCs stopped working - but continues to work fine for the Macbook. The Win problem exists via wired and wifi connections. When I plug the printer directly into either PC's USB port, printing works perfectly. I have set up separate printer names for direct and LAN connections.
The printer is visible to Bonjour. I re-installed Bonjour on one PC and tested using the printer name that it set up, verified that Norton firewall has USB port 5353 open, even disabled the firewall completely. Any print job sent from the PCs simply fails - the printer never gives any indication that it's receiving data.
The only change to the Win systems since before I had this problem have been periodic auto-updates with Windows patches, and updated Safari.
The fact that multiple Windows systems but not the Mac are having problems made me suspect Bonjour, but it can see the printer. If anyone has a clue what might be wrong, let me know.
-JR

I was able to solve my printing problem using the instructions at the iFelix site http://tech.ifelix.net/1004.html. The problem was solved after I replaced the printer name with the IP address of my Time Capsule (10.0.1.1) for the existing port that the printer was connected to (instead of creating a new port, I selected the existing port that my printer was connected to and clicked Configure Port). After saving, the next time that I tried to print it worked.
Thanks to AppleConvert2009 who posted the iFelix URL containing the fix in the "Bonjour - printer found but can't print" topic in the Bonjour for Windows discussion.

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