WGM Printer Preference Problem

I manage a school mac lab environment with about 5 labs of 30 macs total per lab. Each lab has a designated HP LaserJet 8100 series network printer in it. The printer is setup on a Windows Server and I can print to it successfully via LDP.
What my problem is. When I set which printers are default in WGM through the Printing Preferences. I set what printers are in the list and what printer is default. I also unchecked the:
- Allow user to modify the printer list
- Allow Printer that connect directly to users computer
When I log into the lab machines they are not getting the list of printers or even the default printer. The printer list is just empty. The strange thing is. The Printer Setup Utility window is being managed and does not allow users to modify the printer list like it should. So it seems I'm getting part of it to work.
This used to work in the past for me just fine, but ever since 10.4+ I've been having troubles.
My Band-Aid solution is to setup the printer list on the machine and use WGM to just choose the default from that list. This has worked just fine for a while, but we are changing to a different print server soon and I don't want to have to reset the printer lists on each machine locally in order to make this change. It is not easy to gain access to all these machines due to class schedules. So I would prefer this to work like it used to. In the past all I had to do is change the list in WGM and once all the Mac's logged out and back in we were set to go.
Has anyone had this problem? I'm out of ideas...
Dual 2.3Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) Mac OS X (10.4.9 Server also)

Hi
You’ve had this posted for some time without much success.
I manage a school mac lab environment with about 5
labs of 30 macs total per lab. Each lab has a
designated HP LaserJet 8100 series network printer in
it. The printer is setup on a Windows Server and I
can print to it successfully via LDP.
I think your problem starts here really. The printers should really be part of OSX Server’s Print Service for the rest of it to work as you want it.
This used to work in the past for me just fine, but
ever since 10.4+ I've been having troubles.
There were fundamental changes from Panther to Tiger – if this is what you mean. For example watchdog was replaced with launchd. That said Apple expanded greatly on what was available in 10.3 Print Service. In 10.4 directly attached printers (USB etc) can be accessed as if they were network printers, this was not available in 10.3 The addition of Printer Pools (groups of similar or like printers acting as one Printer Queue) means print jobs can be passed on to the next printer in the pool that has not run out of paper or ink.

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Released on     06.12.2010 15:05:56
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Component     SBO-REP-CR Crystal Reports 2008 for SAP Business One
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