Office 2001 Printing problems with appletalk

[Alee6k]

once upon a time before i upgraded to OS 10.2.4 for my powerbook G3...
I could use My Office applications with as many printers as my
PowerPrint program would find.
Now a days, i'm printerless because of this one issue. I can not
activate appletalk... in Classic (Chooser) which is where my MSOffice
resides. I understand that i have to activate appletalk In the OSX
systems pref /networking pannel... (and i've even tried creating my
own network just for printers) But i've had no luck. (it wont reconize
USB connections for some reason) I have even just purchased a brand
new printer with native Mac OS 9.2/10. software to see if it was an
issue with my old PowerPrint software. and still no Luck.
My Question is... has anyone else figured out this problem... or come
across it?
Any ideas would be most welcome.

 

[rDeVost]

I'm printerless too. I'm on a G3 trying to find a very old HP--through
Appletalk though rather than USB--and it won't let me turn Appletalk
on. If there's a solution out there, I'd be interested as well.