wt> Wish I could 'really' help but....
I eventually isolated the problem.
For some reason, the HPLaserJet drivers and some other "stuff" had
been removed. I obtained and installed (with a few "dependency
issues") these,
foomatic-db-hpijs_1.5-20041013-1_all.deb
hpijs_1.7.1-2_i386.deb
and printing returned.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions!
-Kenneth