Boot Camp computer appears under Shared list

Have just had a seamless install of Windows XP SP3 as a 10GB FAT32 partition.
Works a charm.
However, I've noticed an annoying bug where after a restart back into Leopard the windows computer is listed under the shared computers list.
I can eventually make it go away with a restart or relaunch of finder but this isn't always reliable, making me think a network time-out is actually what is causing this to fix itself.
Is anyone else seeing this or have a solution?

Yes. One drive with one partition that is only Windows.
Disk Utility with disk selected - Partition Map says GUID Partition Table & with Partition Tab the format selector says Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Disk Utility with the window disk single partition selected - Format : Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Windows is on its own independent drive? It would be Master Boot Record in status field of Disk Utility.
I do not see Master Boot Record anywhere in disk utility.
I have not formatted the drives since I installed it via boot camp beta. I followed the upgrade instructions and I think I had to install a few new apple drivers, but went smoothly. 18 months ago sounds right - i remember hearing about the problems...
No I have not used MacFuse nor Paragon NTFS - just WinClone to rename it.
Thanks,
CM

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Typing the body of the thread message in the title, huh? -)
I am working on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) with boot camp running Windows 7 pro 64-bit. Windows crashes quite often now-a-days and I need to get this fixed. I heard that updating boot camp can help. Currently I am running Version 3.0.4 (322).
Only Apple could hamstring and tie Mac OS to Windows. There isn't any other than whether you can download the drivers into Windows (you can) but Apple puts a block on the installer setup even if your mac does not support it.
Windows 7 needs at least Boot Camp 3.1 and 3.3 is what you should already have. And you are not getting security updates if you don't have at least 10.6.8 as was pointed out. --- you arent using Software Update as you should. And you should backup and clone Mac (and Windows) as well.
You need Mountain Lion to use Boot Camp 5.x which supports Windows 7 & 8 and 64-bit.
I would upgrade to Lion if you can realizing that Rosetta and PowerPC are no longer supported though.
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Boot Camp Support
Boot Camp Manuals
Boot Camp 5.0 Drivers
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdfcreate a Windows support software (drivers) CD or USB storage media
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4407
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4569
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.pdf
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Windows 7 FAQ Answers to commonly asked Windows 7 questions.
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