Connecing to Windows shares from OS X 10.6.1

I have several mac's running 10.6.1 on different subnets within the office that are having problems with connecting to a windows 2003 server (domain controller with shares and not running software firewall)
mac 1
Same subnet as the windows server, can connect to the server
Some shares show up with folders in them as expected other shares show up with no folders in them
Tried both cifs and smb and neither are working.
Firewall disabled
mac 2
Different subnet as the windows server, cannot connect, can browse in finder and "see" the server, but clicking Connect As only results in "connecting" and it hangs
Tried both CIFS and SMB and neither are working.
Attempted to connect to smb://ip address, smb://server, smb://server/share and the same with CIFS
Firewall disabled
Console doesn't even show an attempt to make the connection
Network passwords have been removed from Keychain Access
Thoughts?

I was hoping that 10.6.1 might fix some of the problems, however same problems here. SMB/CIFS broken with finder but will work with smbclient in command line via Terminal. Seems as though Finder will only send encrypted authentication no matter what. It's strange that some people have had success by using numerical passwords only (me included). Could this be a problem with the UTF character set mapping I wonder within Finder?
Come on Apple, I don't mind a shift towards encrypted only - even if it does cause hassle for those of us using servers we don't have admin rights to, but having this level of inconsistency in the same software release is unacceptable.

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