Wireless printing problem from OS X 10.2.8 and Win XP

I have three machines I want to be able to print wirelessly through my airport express. Currently, only one of them will print wirelessly - which is lousy, help.
Machine #1 is running Windows XP. It connects to the internet through the airport express just fine, no problem there. The problem is connecting to the printer. Machine #1 will print just fine when I connect the USB directly to the computer, but wirelessly I can't figure out how to hook it up properly through the airport express to the printer. The part I keep getting hung up on is that the airport express manual says to add another printer put in 10.0.1.1 for the IP address, but when I do so, the machine says that that address is already taken and it beeps at me real loud and gives me an error message - end of story. I suspect I need another IP address, but I can't figure out where to find it. Help.
Machine #2 is my old ibook G3, which is running Mac OS X 10.2.8. The airport express should be able to make it so I can print wirelessly from machine #2, but this one is not working out either. Machine #2 connects to the internet just fine, and when I connect the printer manually to machine #2 it prints just fine. When I try to print wirelessly, through the airport express, it starts out ust fine, the printer begins to print, then all of a sudden, as if for no reason, it "stops the job". I "start the job" back up through the print center, and then it "stops the job" again. we play this game a bit, but I never get farther than printing the first few lines of my print job. It never really makes any progress, it just pretends like ti might if it felt like it. In this case, I've been looking online for some software patch that would fix this problem - looked on the apple site and on the epson site, and haven't made any progressfor many hours. Help!
Machine #3 has no problems. It surfs the internet, plays music on my stereo and prints wirelessly without any trouble at all. It is my new ibook G4 running OS X 10.4. Is it possible to get machine #1 and machine #2 able to print wirelessly just like machine #3? (i'd like all three machines to be able to stream music to my stereo too, but I don't want to push my luck. I'll be ecstatic if I can get these other two machines to print wirelessly. I'm so tired of having to pull that printer cable out from under the couch everytime I need to print something.)
Thanks to anyone who can help. Hey, thanks for just reading this.

thank you for your response!
I am about to look into the efelix site for the PC, thank you. i'm excited.
for the mac, me thinks that i am out of luck with updating the driver. on the epson site the most recent drivers for my printer (epson sytlus photo 820) are for OS X 10.1.3 - 10.2.6, and I am running OS X 10.2.8.
Hmmmm, I downloaded the driver anyway, and it gives me an APPLICATION LAUNCH FAILURE because of a "shared library error" when I try to launch the new drivers. The other thing on the site is a PIM II Plug In - which doesn't look like a driver to me.
a link to the lack of drivers for my poor mac...
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid= 14409&prodoid=22966687&infoType=Downloads&platform=Macintosh

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