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It seems Win 7 doesn't like sharing printers with Vista PC's . The solution of setting the printer as a local printer on the remote PC's works brilliantly if you have XP or Win 7 but Vista won't work.
So I bit the bullet and installed Win 7 on my other Laptop now all my PC's can share my printer.
It would be nice if MS could address this problem (there seem to be numerous unanswered threads on this) but I suppose they want everyone on Win7. (not that its not a good idea, but it can get quite pricey with multiple PC's