Printer setup not working

[Zach Uram]

Here is what I've done to get my HP Deskjet 960c color inkjet printer
working in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake):

Booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it
on, added paper, printer's green light is on.

I then went to System -> Administration -> Printing
Clicked on New Printer and it ran gnome-cups-add and read the printer database

Then the Add a Printer dialog box says:
Step 1 of 3: Printer Connection
Printer Type: local printer
Use a detected printer: HP DESKJET_960C

It has in Printer Port: (greyed out so I can't change it):
hp:/par/DESKJET_960C?device=/dev/parport0 (HP DESKJET_960C)

So it detected my correct printer.

Then I went Forward to:
Step 2 of 3: Printer Driver
Manufacturer: HP
Model: Deskjet 960C
Driver: hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 0.9.7 (Suggested) There is a green
dot after this showing it is installed.

Then I went Forward to:
Step 3 of 3: Printer Information
Name: Deskjet
Description: HP-DESKJET
Location: home

So afterI filled those in I clicked Apply.

But when I go back to the Printers control panel I don't see any
printer in there. It just says has the New Printer icon to create a
new printer. It should have created the printer I setup. And when I
try to print it said in the console: lpr: Error - no default
destination available. So apparently it is not setting it up :-(

I checked the log files and only thing I saw possibly relevant was in
/var/log/syslog:

Dec 31 01:18:29 ubuntu kernel: [4498844.439000] lp0: ECP mode
Dec 31 01:18:30 ubuntu kernel: [4498844.757000] lp0: ECP mode
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.541000] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.570000] ppdev0: negotiated
back to compatibility mode because user-space forgot
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.570000] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Dec 31 01:18:36 ubuntu kernel: [4498851.283000] lp0: ECP mode

I verified I have the correct drivers installed:

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hplip
ii  hplip                                  0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii  hplip-data                             0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - data files
ii  hplip-ppds                             0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - PPD files
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hpijs
ii  foomatic-db-hpijs                      1.5-20060318-1
linuxprinting.org printer support - database
ii  hpijs                                  2.1.7+0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP
Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive

Is there a way I can manually force it to try and print using the
drivers? It should work, I followed all the steps yet it never creates
an entry for my printer :-( What is wrong?

Zach