HPLIP Toolbox crashed during set up

[Joe Linux]

Binary package hint: hplip

After the installation (ext3) of Ubuntu 8.04 (language=FR) on my HP Pavilion zt3330EA laptop and all the proposed updates, I also installed the HPLIP Toolbox (with the proposed associated s/w) for my HP OfficeJet 7140xi printer (all-in-one connected by LAN).
During the setup of the printer, HPLIP s/w stopped working, and I received a system message saying this s/w has gone.

HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities
This package contains utilities with graphical user interface (GUI) for HPLIP: HP Toolbox, HP Fax, ...
Installed version: 2.8.2-Oubuntu8 (hardy)

Then strange thing: most of the printing functions seem to work correctly on the few applications I have tested; i.e. Firefox, Evolution and OpenOffice, but I have also random behaviors of my printer.
The fax et scanner were not tested yet.

I cannot include the system bug report as I don't know where to find it on my laptop.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 11 17:02:28 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/hplip/setup.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hplip-data 2.8.2-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/hp-setup -u
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/hp-setup', '-u']
SourcePackage: hplip
Title: setup.py crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in parseDeviceURI()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
UserGroups:

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