Message of invalid argument while trying to install a wireless printer

I am trying to install a wireless printer from Brother on my laptop which is running Vista. I also have a desktop that runs XP. I have not had any problems for the printer set up and running on XP. However, on Vista, during the installation of the Brother software, I get a message of "arguments are not valid. It seems that the installation is successful, but it's not. The Brother printer appears in the network, but not in printers in Control Panel. I tried a solution listed here, but in the Control Panel, when I try to add a printer, I get a message that Windows can not open "add a printer". Can you help me please?

Hi cat8woman,

Please see the thread with a similar problem and fix possible:

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/error-message-printer-the-arguments-are-invalid/ef284d93-BD50-49c7-9a98-8ef592e0cf3a

I hope this helps!

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