the print spooler service may not be running

Hello

I have 4 computers around here, and I'm trying to get a printserver running on one of them, so we have installed windows 2008, set up as a server to printing etc..
Now when I try to add the printer to my computer laptop windows 7, it works perfectly, and is the same for one of the windows xp workstations.
However, when I try to add the printserver on windows server 2003, it starts talking about missing drivers.

The printer is a HP LJCP3505 PCL6, and he is already working on a normal (eg. non-printserver associated) network.
I downloaded almost all the drivers, I could find from the HP website, but whenever I try to add them, it tells me that they are not valid drivers.
and on another computer windows 7, I get the following error message:

Could not connect to the printer.
On the server print spooler service could not be executed.
Restart the spooler or restart the server

(on a side note: it's a translated error message, our systems are not English)

I don't know if they are related, but I checked the print spooler service, and it was fine (auto startup, active etc.).
the same goes for its dependencies.

Hi LeanderML,

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