Can't see network PCs in Leopard finder or browsing.

I have never been able to see any of my PCs in Leopard or even in Tiger. I have never paid attention to it in Tiger, but now that I have Leopard, I would really like to use the screen sharing feature. Everything that I have read says to check the workgroup name, which I have changed to WORKGROUP, the windows default on my AirPort extreme, all of my PCs (vista and xp) and on my Mac. In system preferences though, whenever I try to change the workgroup name in the network panel, I apply the changes, then it never keeps the changes that I make. I think that I have turned on sharing on the PCs, but I am not 100% sure of how to do it properly. I have windows xp home, professional, and vista and a Mac running Leopard. All computers are on an AirPort network made up of three routers. An airport extreme and two airport expresses. Thank you to anyone who can help, I would really like to be able to use the networking features in Leopard.

Nathaniel N wrote:
Allright, today for the first time for about 10 minutes, I could see all of my network computers. Then, they were gone. Possibly something that caused that to happen was that a friend came over with a Mac. When the their Mac was on, I could see the computers. When their computer was turned off, they disappeared. I am not sure what is happening. I was able to connect to my computer and browse it for the short time that I could. But now I'm back where I was again.
Now that is interesting (and something beyond my comprehension). For the record though, I know that it IS possible to get Leopard to see a PC network, without resorting to a hosts file edit (that can only work if you manage the network and allocate the IP addresses.. not a reality in most worklplaces). I know this because I have done it. I can't consistently browse for PC's, but I can always connect to the share.
When you tried to connect to your PC's directly from the Go menu, did you connect by name or by IP address?
If by name, have you tried adding '.local' to the PC network name? (i.e. smb://yourPCname.local/thenameoftheshareonthePC).
If that fails, use the Go menu again and try smb://yourPCipaddress/thenameoftheshareonthePC).
If that fails, disable "Simple File Sharing" on your PC, and try again.
Don't get disheartened, technology can be a "female dog" sometimes! These issues happen with all kind of OS - even Windows boxes can sometimes struggle to sort themselves out on a Windows network...

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