Good question, I did have AVG running. I erased it from the computer and I'm going to load up Avast! as I use it on several other machines on the net.

However, it didn't solve my problem. Plus, as a troubleshooting tool, I tried another XP notebook that I didn't have a printer set up on - I also could not get the printer setup on that notebook - I was getting the message "incorrect printer driver loaded onto the printer you are trying to access", so I loaded the newest HP driver on the network printer machine and it completely fixed everything up. I now went back to my notebook (XP) and tried again and the printer loaded right up.

I then went back to the Vista machine and tried again. You won't believe it but now the Vista machine can't see the printer. Saw it perfectly before. So I check Network Places and it can see every machine on the network perfectly EXCEPT the one with the printer. Do you ever feel as if the computer gods are just playing with us?/%^&*

I've done everything I can think of to get it to see that machine - it's got the first IP in the router pool...I could access files from it on the Vista machine until I changed the printer driver...I'm baffled!!

My next course of action is to take down the router and reboot everything...that ought to clean things up a bit anyway...