Cascading Wireless/Wired Routers

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I currently am running a Motorola Wireless Router (WR850G) and just
bought a SMC Barricade router w/printer port (SMCBR14up-ca) which was
on sale as a potential backup.

But now I am interested in finding out whether I could cascade them
with the Wireless one being "Master" and SMC "Slave".

Even as I was advised that routers are not designed to perform as such,
but I was told at the same that this may work with the below:
1) connecting them with a cross-over cable (a straight thru may work
with auto cross-over),
2) disabling the DHCP server of the 2nd Router,
3) duplicating the TCP/IP address of the first router into the 2nd
one.

I am trying to connect:
1) the wirless router: a Win98 laptop with wireless card
2) the wired router/printer : a XPPro desktop and a XP notebook
( easy to access the printer)

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Now, my Questions:
1) will this work as outlined above?

2) Cross Over--
2.a) how to find out whether the router has auto-cross over
2.b) any particular order of the CrossOver cable being plugged into
the two routers?
2.c) any port of the Master Route to be used?

3) Can/How the Win98 laptop or any other wireless notebooks be able to
access the printer port thru the wireless router?

4) How to set-up/configure to plug-in the Slave Router without causing
major problems (e.g. service disruptions/upsets etc) to the current
wireless router/IPS set-up?

Many thanks for the comments/ suggestions / on-line instructions on
this.