Can't browse network with new router - HELP!

My old WRT54G died a few days ago. I replaced it with a WRT54GL which was the closest match. Since installing the new router I can no longer browse my network. I configured the new router with LELA as per the instructions suggested. Could that have changed something? All the machines can get on the internet and I can ping all the machines through the command line but when I try to look at the workgroup in the my network places window I get an error message that says:
"Workgroup not accessable. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found."
When I run the net view command in the command line that also results in an error.
When I hook machines together with a crossover cable everything works fine so I have to assume it's some setting in the new router that is preventing the browse list from working. Here's what I've tried:
Turned off firewalls both on the local machines and on the router - made no difference
Made sure all machines are in the same workgroup - they are
Made sure browser service and the peer networking services are running - they are
Made sure all machines are on the same subnet - they are because they can ping each other
Now here's something really strange. When I rename the workgroup on all machines they can see each other. Once I switch back to the name "workgroup" they can't see each other any longer and I get the error message.
I run a small business and need to share files quite often. I would love to be able to get a NAS server but I can't find any that will work with ALL of my machines. Most of my machines are running Vista at this point but a few are still XP Pro. One of my machines is XP Pro and cannot run SP2 which prevents a lot of newer software and devices from running on it. This is why I really need to get my file sharing ability back.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Mike
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I solved the issue and wanted to post it in case someone else has the same issue. One of the machines uses a Linksys WGA600N Dual Band Gaming adapter as it's wireless adapter. Technically speaking this actually a bridge. I needed to restart it. That solved my issue.
Mike

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