Copying files from Macbook to PC help (network)

I just got a 13" Macbook the other day and I'm learning how to use it. I've been playing around with the Photo Booth program where you can take snapshots or videos with the built-in camera. Specifically, I have created a movie with Photo Booth and want to copy it to a folder on my Windows XP PC via the network.
I have networking set up just fine and I have enabled sharing with a folder on my PC (and allowed network users to modify the files checkbox). So these are the steps I'm taking to copy the file, but it's not working:
1) I have dragged the movie from Photo Booth to the desktop on my Macbook. It is a .mov file appx 70MB in size.
2) Then I drag the file from the desktop into Finder where I open my network and open my shared folder on the PC and let go.
3) The file shows that it is being copied (the bar successfully moves from left to right indicating the file is being copied). But at the end of the copy process I hear an audible sound and the file is not present in the folder on my PC. I do, however, have a file called ".DS_Store" on my PC in the folder I was trying to copy the .mov file to. At first, this made me think of my Nintendo DS, but then I discovered this is just a file the Mac creates in every folder.
But the .mov file is not there! No matter what I do, I cannot get the file to copy there. I have even tried using Edit/Copy on the file on my Mac and then pasting into the folder. Same thing happens.
What am I missing? I have successfully been able to copy some MP3's from my PC to my MAC, but this is the first file I've tried to copy from my MAC to my PC.

It sounds like perhaps you are coping into a different folder than you think you are.
On the PC, place a file into the destination folder. On the Mac, open up the destination folder over the network. If you cannot see the file you just added, then we have confirmed that you are probably copying the file into a different location.

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