Wireless Printing Stopped?!

I have my HP Photosmart 1218xi connected to a 2.0 USB hub and the hub is directly connected to my Dell Dimension 8200 (WinXP Home) my airport express basestation is also directly connected to that computer. When I got my MBPro 17in C2D i setup the printer through the printer utility and enabled print sharing on my MBP and WinXP computer. Everything was perfect, until today. All of a sudden it won't print. I get this weird error message saying that connection failed. I uninstalled the printer and tried to reinstall to noavail. I then tried to direct connect the printer to the MBP and that doesn't even work. Can anyone help?! I'm lost!

When you had the original problem did you power off the printer, power off the router. Power on the router and wait 3 mins and then power on the printer?
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