Printing from Gimp

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Hi All,

I have an HP OfficeJet 5500 set up to print through CUPS.  I can get it 
to print from OpenOffice, from a browser, etc....  My problem is in 
getting it to print from Gimp. 

There are no gimpprint drivers available for the OJ 5500, at least I 
can't find any, and I have the 1.6.2 version of HPIJS installed, so I 
downloaded the correct .ppd file and set Gimp up to use the printer as a 
PostScript Level2 printer and browsed to the .ppd file and showed Gimp 
where it is.   There is an activity bar that runs across the bottom of 
page showing Gimp getting ready to print, but nothing prints.  The 
spooler never shows any print jobs and neither does the CUPS printer or 
print jobs page when connecting to it by browser.  (All jobs except for 
the Gimp jobs show up here and print successfully)

I am obviously configuring something wrong in Gimp, or I am missing a 
software component somewhere, but what? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Gary