Weird printer sharing issue

I have an iMac running 10.4 and a MacBook running 10.5. The iMac is connected to a printer and set up to share. I successfully printed one document from my MacBook to this shared printer. The next one wouldn't print; it just got stuck on "looking for" the printer. I messed around with it a bit, reinstalled the driver, nothing.
Finally I deleted the printer from my MacBook's list. Maybe a mistake, because now it can no longer "see" it. If I try to re-add that printer... I click on the + button and the shared printer appears on the list for a fraction of a second, and then it's gone, so I can't add it.
Tried restarting etc., all the usual stuff. I'm stumped and desperate. Anyone?

Sometimes printer manufacturers use different print drivers for different versions of Mac OS X and this prevents printer sharing from working properly between, say, 10.4 and 10.5. Like EPSON's drivers for their printers may say they work with "10.3 - 10.5" but there are different versions of the driver in the installer package and the appropriate one is used at install time based on the system you're running.
I went through this too, and found that printing to a shared printer worked from 10.4 to 10.4 and 10.5 to 10.5, but not 10.4 to 10.5 or vice versa. Make sense?
Now I'm just having trouble in general with printer sharing (I think the 10.5.6 update hosed it).

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Yes, there is at least one other thread on this but it looked a bit stale.
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Ok, another update and possibly some clues.
I was curious why at one point, when all the computers were in Workgroup2, that "Workgroup" still showed up in Explorer under the list of networks, but only on the two XP machines. Netscan showed this group association as well, which I then realized was the E3000 itself, in its role as a [I]potential[/I] NAS server. However there was no storage device attached.
Could this in itself cause the access error? If so, should users be advised that if they don't plan to host any storage, that they should to go to the E3000 Storage Administration page and change the workgroup name to something other than their actual workgroup name?
In my case, I changed it to "Workgroupx", though perphaps something like "StorageGroup" would be more meaningful, especially if the Workgroup computers could still access any storage I might install in the future.
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Next I re-added the shared folders on the XP desktop, and the XP netbook could see and access them. After about an hour, the Win7 machine joined this clique, and could also access the shares. But six hours later, the Vista machine is still clueless. Netscan shows everything of course, and I used it to set up a mapped drive on the Vista machine to one of the shared folders.
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The was all working fine with the BEFRS41/WAP54G combo
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On the Vista machine I can set up mapped drives to the XP's shared folders, but again, only by IP address.
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Should I request and apply the KB922120 hotfix to get LLTD onto the XP machines?
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I'm going to apologize first because I don't have a real solution and my post will sound negative, but my experience may give some insight.
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Like I said, no real solution, other than possibly upgrading to 10.5/10.6. So maybe just a pointer to a different line of thinking. Good luck!

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