Windows won't print to shared Lexmark

Hello,
I've read several topics on the issue but none seem to have my specific problem.
Basically I have my Lexmark X1150 attached to my Mac (USB), printer sharing is on, and my Windows XP box has bonjour installed. I've followed all the instructions on setting this up and am pretty confident its all how it should be.
The Windows box sees the printer, and prints to it.
The mac queue accepts the file, starts to spool it, but then suddenly stops. (as though the pause queue button had been pressed.)
If I try to start the queue again the file then disappears and nothing happens.
Suspecting that it was a printer driver issue I tried a few different ones on the Windows box, most won't even allow the file to get to the mac, they just disappear.
The only driver which would at least get the file to the mac queue is the actuall X1150 printer driver, but that's as far as it goes.
Any thoughts? Specifically is there a priter driver I should be using (I've tried the Apple laserwriter drivers, and various Lexmark ones, to no avail.)
I've looked through http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/ but there doesn't seem to be anything on 'what to do if the printer queue stops'.
Thanks for any advice.

Thanks Greg
Unfortunately doesn't work (yet). It does now say "printer not responding" instead of just stopping, which seems like progress.
Just a couple of questions...
When I went to the files...
/etc/cups/mime.convs and /etc/cups/mime.types
the lines that started with: #application/octet-stream'
already had the'#' removed. Was I reading this right? I thought I was meant to remove the '#'. They looked like this when I opened them...
# Raw print file support...
# Uncomment the following type and the application/octet-stream
# filter line in mime.convs to allow raw file printing without the
# -oraw option.
application/octet-stream
# End of "$Id: mime.types,v 1.2 2005/02/25 19:31:50 jlovell Exp $".
Second question, with the serial number in the URI,
?serial=MO7P104xxxxxxxxx40
Do I just replace the 'MO7P104' and leave everything else in there? Or do I replace the whole thing 'MO7P104xxxxxxxxx40'.
Thanks for your continuing help.

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