Win 7 Not Finding HP 64 Bit Printer Driver

I downloaded the correct 64 bit driver for my LaserJet 3050 onto the new Win 7 PC and ran it. It created a folder with the various driver files inside.
The printer is connected to an XP machine by USB with printer and file sharing enabled. The rest of the home lan can see and use the printer.
Win7 finds the printer OK but when prompted to manually browse for a driver, I take it to the new driver folder where the requested file is plainly visible, but Win7 says an appropriate file cannot be found. I repeated the download and driver install from HP but no change.
Is there some trick to convincing win 7 to recognizing this driver? Right now a Win 7 driver for a similar printer is working passably so all the connections and network logic seem to be fine, but I'd like to get the real driver to install.

Try the following: go to the Devices and Printers folder, Add a Printer, Local Printer, Create a Port, Local Port, \\Computername\Printername (use the actual share name for the computer and printer), OK, then click "Have Disk" and point to the appropriate directory.
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