Apple Remote Desktop 3.1 and Tiger weirdness

I do have Apple Remote Desktop 3.1 Admin installed at a 10.4.10 MB machine.
There are some remote machines, which I have successful admin access.
There is one specific iBook, which causes a headache.
It is a G4/1.2GHz machine, kept updated to current system - now 10.4.10.
I was not able to put ARD 3 remotely on it, so I did it manually and it worked.
BUT I had no access at all to the machine, no wonder what I was doing. After installing ARDclient 3.1 I could send messages back and forth, update the client etc but was unable to observe or steer the machine. After many hacking I figured out that when I open up TCP/UDP Ports 3283 and 5900 manually under firewall in the sharing settings I do have full access. The Apple Remote Desktop settings under services do show their check/uncheck, but they simply do not work i.e. they do not open up the corresponding ports.
What is going on there plus what do I do to change it?
(One of the actions upon hacking was to install Tiger new on the machine, but that did not solve the issue - is there some hidden .plist I have to delete?)

Probably get a reasoned response posting to the ARD forum: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1007

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