Finder freezes and Networking and Locked drives will not unlock

I have been having trouble with my Mini'S finder freezing when I try to connect to another computer. Sometimes it works OK but it often freezes, beachball and cannot relaunch finder, have to reboot. The mini is Intel Duo, Network is 6 windows machines and 1 g5 PPC 1.8 single. An Apple Airport Extreme, a Linksys router and a Buffalo router, I can connect to the Win machines no problem but , like I said, often when connecting to the G5 I get the Finder Crash, but only about 60 % of the time. I have sharing turned on, Personal and Windows on both machines. I am admin on both. Also the MINI drops Network connections which have been working for a few hours.
I am beginning to think the MINI's Network card is bad.
ANother maybe related issue, from the MINI, 2 drives on the G5 appear as Locked, I have repeatedly unlocked them with Xray and by the terminal, from the G5 (to which the drives are attached) the drives show unlocked but always from the mini they appear as locked. I have tried to unlock them form the MINIS terminal but get a long Beach Ball.
Both the G5 and Mini are running the latest OSX and everything else is updated.
Anyone else relate to these issues? thank you,
Steve
pmac 1.8 single, MIni Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

0. In order to unlock screen highlight a # and double click it to enter, do this until screen is unlocked. Then highlight "settings"
1.       Double tap screen to go into settings
2.      use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll down/up
3a.     highlight reset, then double tap on the screen
OR
3b Highlight accessiblity - voiceover - on/off
(There is also a voiceover pratice option in that accessbility menu)

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