Back to My Mac Doesn't Work

Has anyone figured out how to make "Back to My Mac" work? I have 2 Macs running Leopard and a .Mac account, but do not even see a "Sharing" category in Finder, so it does not seem to work.
Are there any directions or suggestions as to how to make this work? There is a video on the website, but it has a "Sharing" category that my Macs are missing.
Thanks.

Greetings Mac World,
I stand corrected...finally. Three things.
1. My desktop, iMac G5, malfunctioned and was out of commission until repaired by an Apple tech today, so I hadn't been commenting on the whole Back To My Mac issue. But now that it is repaired (bad power supply on iMac G5), I can add an additional two cents.
2. My iMac G5 did not have 10.5.1. According to the updates I downloaded this afternoon using Software Update, I still had to install 10.5.1 on my G5. Odd I thought, since I was almost 100% certain it was already installed. But the updates included 10.5.1, so it was applied (or re-applied in my mind) tonight.
3. I reset my base station to the default settings on Airport Extreme and did the automated setup again to reapply security to it (WPA2), but left all other settings alone.
Voila...Presto...Hocus Pocus and....Drumroll please
Back To My Mac works instantly.
So I guess that rules out the theory on having a dot in your user name, since I have 3 dots. And sort of validates the whole 10.5.1 solving Back To My Mac. Granted I'm basically using all Apple products, but...
Hopefully, this sheds light for someone else.

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From:   SnakEyez02 <[email protected]>
To:     Marcusb B <[email protected]>
Date:   02/13/2012 09:20 PM
Subject:        WP Greek Century in Mac doesn't work with
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